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The Bible 


and 


Christian Science 


A Review of ‘‘Science and Health With Key to the 
Scriptures” in Relation to Holy Scripture 


By 
ALLEN W. JOHNSTON 


Author of “The Roman Catholic Bible and 
The Roman Catholic Church’’ 





New York CHICAGO 


Fleming H. Revell Company 


LONDON AND EDINBURGH 


Copyright, 1924, by 
FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY 


Printed in the United States of America 


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Introduction 


S few men have who write, Allen W. John- 
ston has the grace of tolerance and the pen 
of courtesy. His style is simple and direct ; 

- his writing is as transparently genuine as his life. 

In reading the manuscript of The Bible and 
Christian Science, | was impressed, first of all, 
with the fact that, however widely some of his 
readers may differ with him, however earnestly 
any may question the wisdom of his searching 
Scriptural analysis of the faith to which so many 
thousands of his fellowmen have given their alle- 
giance, no one will ever be able, in fairness, to 
charge him with literary trickery, narrow intoler- 
ance, or that bitterness of spirit which expresses 
itself in “ invidious personalities.” 

In his Preface, and throughout the crowded 
pages which follow, Mr. Johnston has remembered 
that the grace wherewith we differ is from above, 
and that it is from thence we learn doctrine. 

To those who accept the Bible as the inspired 
Word of God; who find in it the way of life; who 
take from its pages infallible directions for the 
guidance of the immortal soul, and who may have 
been deeply troubled by some of the omissions, as 
well as by many of the claims of Christian Science, 


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4 INTRODUCTION 


Mr. Johnston’s book will come most opportunely. 
From the standpoint of Christian faith and experi- 
ence, the volume is entirely constructive. It hon- 
ours Jesus as the Christ, and, if it is searching in 
its criticism and condemnatory in its conclusions, 
responsibility must attach itself not to Mr. John- 
ston, nor to the supreme text-book which he has 
made his commentary and guide, but to Christian 
Science itself. 
DANIEL A. PoLine. 


Marble Collegiate Church, 
New York, N.Y. 


Preface 


ERSONS of various minds having varied 
walks in life have accepted so-called Chris- 
tian Science as a belief or creed. It is 
proper, therefore, that the writer show due cour- 
tesy, although he finds the creed unworthy of the 
confidence placed in it by its adherents. ‘This book 
is written with hope that it will be read by advo- 
cates of “ Christian Science.”’ 

We find in “ Science and Health and The Key ” 
undue exalting of “Mind, Soul, Spirit,” and 
God as “ Divine principle of man,” and “ Christ 
existing in the eternal order of divine science,” but 
do not find the spirit of the meek and lowly Jesus. 

The beliefs of “ Science and Health” are ex-. 
pressed therein from many standpoints and angles. 
In confronting these beliefs with Holy Scripture 
we quote from Scripture frequently and sometimes 
repeat the verses quoted so as to apply directly. 
We have endeavoured to avoid invidious person- | 
alities, and sought to follow the spirit of Christ, 
through whom grace is given to discern truth. 

The author uses the abbreviation S. & H. for the 
book “ Science and Health with Key to the Scrip- 
tures,” (Copyright extended, 1917). 

AV 
Schenectady, N.Y. 





Contents 


RUATONEMEN T-—HUCHARIST AHR uh oa 


. SCIENCE, ‘THEOLOGY, MEDICINE AND 


PHYSIOLOGY ; ; ; Nr WE Waar ike ed 


. FootstErsS oF ‘TRUTH — CREATION — 


SOIENCE) OF (DEIN WLU cae Oe) 


. “SomE OBJECTIONS ANSWERED ”; 


“CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PRACTICE”; 
“TEACHING CHRISTIAN SCIENCE” . 141 


. RECAPITULATION : j d OR LL 


VAL 


GENESIS; THE APOCALYPSE . . . 215 





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ATONEMENT—EUCHARIST 


“So shone the pale star to the prophet- 
shepherds; yet it traversed the night, and 
came where, in cradled obscurity, lay the 
Bethlehem babe, the human herald of 
Christ.”—S. & H. Preface vii: 4-6. 


Thus “Science and Health” in its Preface 
begins with a denial of “The Word made flesh.” 


“Tn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was 
with God, and the Word was God... . 

“ And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, 
(and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only 
begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”— 
Joun 1:1, 14. 

“Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: 
When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, 
before they came together, she was found with 
child of the Holy Ghost.’—Matruew 1: 18. 


Beginning thus wrong, it continues wrong 
throughout as we believe is herein shown. 


“The time for thinkers has come. Truth, 
independent of doctrines and time-honoured 
systems, knocks at the portal of humanity.” 
—S. & H. Preface vii: 13-14. 


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The doctrine that God is the Saviour, the Word 
made flesh, is time-honoured and stands. ‘Truth is 
one of His names. 


“Not purloining, but shewsng all good fidelity; that 
they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour 
in all things.”’—Titus 2: 10. 

“ All scripture is given by inspwation of God, and ts 
profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, 
for instruction in righteousness.’—Il ‘TimoTHY 
SiO: 

“Jesus saith unto hem, I am the way, the truth, and 
the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by 
me.’—JOHN 14:6. 


“The prayer that reforms the sinner and 
heals the sick is an absolute faith that all 
things are possible to God,—a spiritual un- 
derstanding of Him, an unselfed love.”— 
SHA OY Wa ee 


If the above be true, why is the following ques- 
tion asked? 


“Should we implore a corporeal God to 
heal the sick out of His personal volition, or 
should we understand the infinite divine 
Principle which heals? If we rise no higher 
than blind faith, the Science of healing is 
not attained.”—S. & H. 167: 1-4. 


On the way to church one May morning I added 
to the tulips plucked from my garden a few lilies 
from the Lord’s garden (the broad field by the 


ATONEMENT—EUCHARIST 11 


wayside ) ; those blossoms that toil not neither spin. 
Those pure and beautiful blooms came from the 
creator without the cultivating hand of man. Why 
should we doubt His making the Word flesh that 
He might dwell among us? 

We hail as a blessing the fresh, invigorating 
breeze of spring, the wind that bloweth where it 
- listethe Why should we doubt its source, (the 
giver of every good and perfect gift) because we 
fail to trace the path whence it cometh and whither 
it goeth, hearing only the sound thereof. 


“Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, 
which today 1s, and tomorrow ts cast mto the oven, 
shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little 
fasth? ’—Marr. 6: 30. 


“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among 
us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the 
only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and 
truth.’—JouHn 1:14. 


“ Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born 
again. The wind bloweth where st listeth, and thou 
hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence 
it cometh, and whither it goeth: so 1s every one that 
ts born of the Spirtt.’—Joun 3:7, 8. 


“And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, 
Behold, the tabernacle of God ts with men, and he 
will dwell with them, and they shall be lis people, 
and God himself shall be with them, and be their 
God.’—Rkrv. 21: 3. 


“The only civil sentence which he had for 


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error was ‘ Get thee behind me, Satan.’ ”— 


Rosette Bue be 


The Saviour’s rebuke to Peter was prompted by 
Peter’s denial of the atonement, when our Lord 
told him that he must'make atonement. ‘The author 
of S. & H. also denies the atonement on page 18 of 
'S. & H. as follows: 


“Atonement is the exemplification of 
man’s unity with God, whereby man reflects 
divine Truth, Life, and Love. ... He did 
life’s work aright not only in justice to him- 
self, but in mercy to mortals,—to show them 
how to do theirs, but not to do it for them 
nor to relieve them of a single responsibil- 


ity."—S. & H. 18: 1-3, 6-9. 


“ Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, say- 
ing, ‘Be st far from thee, Lord: thts shall not be 
unto thee. But he turned, and said unto Peter, 
Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto 
me: for thou savourest not the things that be of 
God, but those that be of men.’—Matv. 16: 22, 23. 


When man is born again he does not reflect God, 
for atonement is the substituting in our place of 
Jesus Christ; He suffering the punishment for our 
sins, that through faith in Him we might be saved 
and be one with Him; not a reflection of Him. 


“ All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned 
everyone to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on 
him the iniquity of us all?’—IsataH 53: 6. 


ATONEMENT—EUCHARIST 13 


“That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in 
me, and I sn thee, that they also may be one in us: 
that the world may believe that thou hast sent 
me.’—JoHN 17:21. 


‘Jesus acknowledged no ties of the flesh. 
He said: “ Call no man your father upon the 
earth: for one is your father, which is in 
heaven.”—S, & H. 31. 


The above quotation from Matt. 23:9 is not to 
be construed as referring to earthly parentage. 
Christ fulfilled the commandment, “ Honour thy 
father and thy mother,” and in directing John to 
behold Mary, who bore Him, as his mother, He 
recognised earthly parentage. 

In the verse preceding the one quoted, Jesus 
directed His disciples not to be called “ Rabbi,” 
and neither were they to call any man upon the 
earth, “ Father.” (See verse 9.) 

Jesus again recognized the human ties of father 
and mother for others, when He replied to the rich 
young ruler: 


“Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit 
adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear 
false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.” 
—LuKE 18: 20, 


“The Passover, which Jesus ate with his 
disciples in the month Nisan on the night 
before His crucifixion, was a mournful oc- 
casion, a sad supper taken at the close of 


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day, in the twilight of a glorious career with 
shadows fast falling around; and this supper 
closed for ever Jesus’ ritualism or conces- 


sions to matter.”—S. & H. 32-3: 28-1. 


¢ 


Far from closing His “ concessions to matter,” 
Jesus directed His disciples to commune likewise 
in remembrance of Him. 


“After the same manner also he took the cup, when 
he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testa- 
ment in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, 
im remembrance of me.’—I Cor. 11:25. 


It 1s also evident that He dined with His dis- 
ciples on the sea-shore after His resurrection. 


“As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a 
fire of coals there, and fish latd thereon, and bread. 
... Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine. And 
none of the disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? 
Knowing that st was the Lord.’—Joun 21:9, 12. 


And also that He sat at meat and brake bread for 
those with Him at Emmaus: 


“And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them 
he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave 
to them.’—LvUKE 24: 30. 


Also He directed the disciples’ attention to His own 
person as one having flesh and bones. 


“ And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them 


ATONEMENT—EUCHARIST 15 


he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave 
to them. . . . Behold my hands and my feet, that it 
is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spsrit hath 
not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.’—LuUKE 
24: 30, 39. 


“Christians, are you drinking his cup? 
Have you shared the blood of the New 
Covenant, the persecutions which attend a 
new and higher understanding of God? If 
not, can you then say that you have com- 
memorated Jesus in his cup?”—S. & H. 
33: 27-31. 


All Christians are sharing the blood of the New 
Covenant, otherwise they are not Christians. 


“But ye are come unto Mount Sion, and unto the city 
of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an 
innumerable company of angels... . And to Jesus 
the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood 
of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that 
of Abel.”—HeEp. 12: 22, 24. 


“Tf Christ, Truth, has come to us in 
demonstration, no other commemoration is 
requisite, for demonstration is Immanuel, or 
God with us; and if a friend be with us, why 


need we memorials of that friend? ’’—S. & 
H. 34: 6-9, 


Memorials are because Christ commanded it. 


“ And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, 
and gave unto them, saying, Thts is my body which 


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is given for you: This do in remembrance of me.’— 
LUKE 22: 19. 


“This spiritual meeting with our Lord 
in the dawn of a new light is the morn- 
ing meal which Christian Scientists com- 
memorate.... 

“They celebrate their Lord’s victory over 
death, his probation in the flesh after death, 
its exemplification of human probation, and 
his spiritual and final ascension above mat- 
ter, or the flesh, when he rose out of material 
sight.”—S, & H. 35:10, 11, 14-18. 


But our Lord commanded His disciples after He 
had used the bread and the wine to do this in re- 
membrance of Him. Whatever else is done by His 
disciples will not compensate for disobeying His 
command; nor was He finally to dispense with the 
body of His personality when He ascended from 
the mount, for the same Jesus that was taken up 
from them was to come again “in like manner as 
ye have seen him go into heaven.” 


“Until the day in which he was taken up, after that 
he through the Holy Ghost had given command- 
ments unto the apostles whom he had chosen.’— 
Mors 12: 


While we do not know all that was “ finished ” 
when Jesus said, while on the Cross, “It is fin- 
ished,” we do know that before He was upon the 
Cross He said to His Father in heaven: 


ATONEMENT—EUCHARIST 17 


“As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he 
should give eternal life to as many as thou hast 
given him. And this ts life eternal, that they might 
know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, 
whom thou hast sent. I have glorified thee on the 
earth: I have fintshed the work which thou gavest 
me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me 
with thine own self wth the glory which I had with 
thee before the world was.” —JoHN 17: 2, 3, 4, 5. 


It was not Christ without Jesus (who was named 
by the angel before he was born of Mary) but 
“Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent” that was to 
be glorified “ with the glory which I had with thee 
before the world was.” | 

It was the Jesus who steadfastly set His face to 
go to Jerusalem “‘ when the time was come that He 
should be received up,’ who was with the disciples 
upon Mount Olivet when He ascended to His 
Father. 


“And it came to pass, when the tsme was come that 
he should be received up, he steadfastly set his face 
to go to Jerusalem.’—LwuxKE 9: 51. 


It will be recalled that Jesus was to be glorified 
before the Holy Ghost was to be given, and that 
He had promised to send the Comforter when He 
went away. That He said to Mary Magdalene that 
He had not yet ascended to His Father, also that 
the promised coming of the Holy Ghost took place 


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on the day of Pentecost after His ascension from 
Mount Olivet. 

May we not believe that while He was with the 
disciples upon the Mount Olivet He was to them 
the same Jesus they had known and that He re- 
ceived the glorifying from His Father when He 
ascended to Him? ‘Thus, Jesus Christ, born of 
Mary, shall come again; this same Jesus who 
ascended into heaven. 


“(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that 
believe on him should recewe: for the Holy Ghost 
was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet 
glorified.)” —JouN 7: 39. 

“Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not 
yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, 
and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and 
your Father; and to my God, and your God.”— 
Joun 20: 17. 

“ But when the Comforter ts come, whom I will send 
unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, 
which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify 
of me.’—JoHN 15: 26, 


While Jesus was here the Holy Ghost was one 
with Him. 


“If ye abide tn me, and my words abide in you, ye 
shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto 


you.”—JOHN 15:7, 


The Holy Ghost is the One who leads to all truth. 


ATONEMENT—EUCHARIST 19 


“And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you 
another Comforter, that he may abide with you for 
ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world 
cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither 
knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth 
with you, and shall be in you.”—JouN 14: 16, 17. 

“ But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom 
the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you 
all things, and bring all things to your remem- 
brance, whatsoever I have said unto you.’— 
Joun 14:26. 

“Tf ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye 
shall ask what ye will, and st shall be done unto 
you.”—JOHN 15:7. 


Scripture makes it plain that no spirit of man or 
truth of man, or principle in man, can supersede 
or come before Jesus Christ, the Truth or the Holy 
Ghost, sent to teach and to lead us into the Truth, 
Jesus Christ, “ whom to know is life eternal.” 

Christian Science evidently does not do it. While 
visiting the sick is “pure religion and undefiled,” 
it is never in Scripture the thing needful for the 
obtaining of eternal life; neither is the power of 
healing, as given to some of the disciples, a general 
acquirement to be obtained by obeying the require- 
ments held forth in the Christian Science cult. 


“Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man 
speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus ac- 
cursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the 
Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. Now there are di- 
versities of gifts, but the same spirit. ... . For to 


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one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to 
another the word of knowledge by the same Spint; 
To another faith by the same Spsrit; to another the 
gifts of healing by the same Spirit.’—I Cor. 
1230458.) 9. 


“Divine Science reveals the necessity of 
sufficient suffering, either before or after 
death, to quench the love of sin. To remit 
the penalty due for sin, would be for Truth 
to pardon error. Escape from punishment 
is not in accordance with God’s government, 
since justice is the handmaid of mercy.”’— 


». & H. 36: 4-9, 


Truth pardons error through Jesus Christ. Suf- 
fering is not sufficient to remit the penalty for sin, 
“God is love ’—He alone can remit the penalty. 


* And though I have the gift of prophecy, and under- 
stand all mystertes, and all knowledge; and though 
I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, 
and have not charity, I am nothing. 

“And though I bestow all my goods to feed the 
poor, and though I give my body to be burned, 
and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.’— 
OR GAY Se 


Truth does pardon error. The pardon is to those 
who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. 


“Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within 
me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my 
soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth 


ATONEMENT—EUCHARIST 21 


all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases.’— 
SALMO tLe oO; 

“There ts therefore now no condemnation to them 
which are sn Christ Jesus, who walk not after the 
flesh, but after the Spirit.’-—Rom, 8:1. 


Note that the freedom from condemnation is for 
_ those who walk after the Spirit—* not a spirit.” 


“ Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, 
and he that hath no money; come ye, buy and eat; 
yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and 
without price. . . . Let the wicked forsake his way, 
and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him 
return unto the Lord, and he wll have mercy upon 
him; and to our God, for he will abundantly 
pardon.’—IsataH 55:1, 7. 

“Who is a God ltke unto thee, that pardoneth in- 
squity, and passeth by the transgression of the rem- 
nant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for- 
ever, because he delighteth in mercy.’—MIcAH 
HvLS: 

“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the 
Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be 
as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, 
they shall be as wool.’—IsaiaH 1: 18. 

“ All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned 
every one to his own way; and the Lord hath lad 
on him the iniquity of us all.”’—Isa1aH 53:6. 

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only 

begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him 
should not perish, but have everlasting life. For 
God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the 
world; but that the world through him might be 
saved.’—Joun 3:16, 17. . 


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“¢ Be ye therefore perfect, even as your 
Father which is in heaven is perfect!’ ‘Go 
ye into all the world, and preach the gospel 
to every creature!’ “Heal the sick!’ 

‘Why has this Christian demand so little 
inspiration to stir mankind to Christian ef- 
fort? Because men are assured that this 
command was intended only for a particular 
period and for a select number of followers. 
This teaching is even more pernicious than 
the old doctrine of foreordination.’—S. & 
H. 37-38: 28-5. 


If it is pernicious, as stated by the author of §S. 
& H., why is the command of the Saviour to “do 
this in remembrance of me” made to be dead and 
not practiced by Christian Scientists? 


“Now is the time for so-called material 
pains and material pleasures to pass away, 
for both are unreal, because impossible in 
Science, 

“Who will stop the practice of sin so long 


as he believes in the pleasures of sin? ”— 
SCE HOO 22-20) 50,00 Le 


It will be noticed that what is recorded in the 
Book of the Revelation had not taken place, but 
was shortly to come to pass. 


“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave 
unto him, to shew unto his servants things which 
must shorily come to pass; and he sent and signi- 


ATONEMENT—EUCHARIST 23 


fied it by his angel unto his servant John.”’— 
Reve dish) 


The time when pain is to pass away is not yet 
come—that time is mentioned. If pain were unreal 
there could be no necessity for it to “ pass away.” 


“ And God shall wipe away all tears from thew eyes; 

' and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, 
nor crying, nesther shall there be any more pain: 
for the former things are passed away,’—Rkv. 
21:4. 

“Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people 
of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a 
season.’—Hes, 11:25. 


The pleasures of sin for a season are a reality, 
but the wages is death. 


“ For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God $s 
eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.’— 
Rom. 6: 23, 


“Divine Science adjusts the balance as 
Jesus adjusted it.’"—S. & H. 40: 8. 


No science can take away sin. There is only one 
way for that. 


“ Neither 1s there salvation in any other: for there is 
none other name under heaven given among men, 


whereby we must be saved.’—Acts 4: 12. 


“The nature of Christianity is peaceful 


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and blessed, but in order to enter into the 
kingdom, the anchor of hope must be cast 
beyond the veil of matter into the Shekinah 


into which Jesus has passed before us.”— 
o. & H. 40-41: 31-2. 


Scripture teaches that the nature of Christianity is 
to accept the salvation offered by Christ and to 
follow His teachings. To enter into His kingdom 
it is necessary to be born again, to put on the 
New Man. 


“But the natural man receweth not the things of the 
spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: 
neither can he know them, because they are spirit- 
ually discerned.’—I Cor. 2: 14. 

“Therefore 1f any man be in Christ, he ts a new 
creature: old things are passed away; behold, all 
things are become new.”—II Cor. 5:17. 


“The maximum of good is the infinite 
God and His idea, the All-in-all. Evil is a 
suppositional lie.’—S. & H. 103: 15. 


It pleased God to make the tree of knowledge of 
good and evil to grow. The existence of both zood 
and evil are real, and are not suppositional. 


“ But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, 
thou shalt not eat of it: for nm the day that thou 
eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.’—GrEn, 2:17. 


Whatever the simile may be intended to represent 


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ATONEMENT—EUCHARIST 25 


it is plain that both good and evil were, and are 
now realities. It was Jesus Christ who gave us the 
prayer, “deliver us from evil.’ It is also plain 
from Scripture that the human mind reasoned to 
the result of disobedience to God. 


“ And when the woman saw that the tree was good 
for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a 
tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the 
fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her 
husband with her; and he did eat.’—GEn. 3: 6. 


IT 


SCIENCE, THEOLOGY, MEDICINE AND 
PHYSIOLOGY 


HAPTERS one to five, inclusive, are given 
by the author of S. & H. to a discussion of 
prayer, Atonement, Eucharist, something of 

Marriage, Spiritualism and Animal Magnetism, 
from which discussion we have quoted in the fore- 
going chapter. 

The author of S. & H. now takes up Science, 
Theology, Medicine and Physiology. We offer 
Scripture and comment upon her considerations 
under those headings. 


“Tn the year 1866, I discovered the Christ 
Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and 
Love, and named my discovery Christian 
Science. God had been graciously preparing 
me during many years for the reception of 
this final revelation of the absolute divine 


Principle of scientific mental healing.”’—S. 
& H. 107: 1-6. 


The Scripture which fits best to such discovery as 
a revelation from God, is the following, written 
nearly two thousand years ago: 


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SCIENCE, THEOLOGY, MEDICINE 27 


“For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wis- 
dom, to another the word of knowledge by the 
same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit; 
to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit.” 
—I Cor. 12:8, 9. 

“There came also a multitude out of the cities round 
about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them 
which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they 
were healed every one.’—Acts 5: 16. 

“But that ye may know that the Son of man hath 
power upon earth to forgive sins, (he said unto the 
sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arsse, and take 
up thy couch, and go into thine house.’—LuKr 
5:24. 

“But the anointing which ye have recewed of him 
abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach 
you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all 
things, and 1s truth, and ts no Ise, and even as tt 
hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.’—I JouHn 
Pat fp 


First we learn from Scripture that healing is not in 
this age a discovery ;—Second, that the healing by 
Christ and His disciples came from the anointing 
by Jesus Christ, and that no teacher was needed ;— 
Third, that it was not by any learning through 
mind, spirit or soul of man that the healing came, 
but was by the power of God and by faith (the 
gift of God) in that power. 


“Tf we this day be examined of the good deed done 
to the wmpotent man, by what means he is made 
whole; be it known unto you all, and to all the 
people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ 


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of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised 
from the dead, even by him doth this man stand 
here before you whole.’—Acts 4:9, 10. 


We also learn from Scripture that healing was 
among the signs given by our Lord, and accom- 
panied the purpose of our Lord’s coming that men 
might believe and be saved. 


“Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he 
laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down 
our lives for the brethren.’—I Joun 3: 16. 


“Whence came to me this heavenly con- 
viction,—a conviction antagonistic to the 
testimony of the physical senses? Accord- 
ing to St. Paul, ‘it was the gift of the grace 
of God given unto me by the effectual work- 
ing of his power.’ It was the divine law of 
Life and Love, unfolding to me the demon- 
strable fact that matter possesses neither sen- 
sation nor life ; that human experiences show 
the falsity of all material things; and that 
immortal cravings, ‘the price of learning 
love,’ establish the truism that the only suf- 
ferer is mortal mind, for the divine Mind 
cannot suffer.”—S. & H. 108: 1-11. 


Mortal mind is not the only sufferer. The divine 
Mind also suffers. Therefore, the unfolding here 
referred to by Mrs. Eddy could not have been from 
God, because God is both “ life”? and “ love ”—two 
of His names given in Scripture. Is there no suf- 


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fering of the Holy Ghost when grieved by His 
erring children so that He makes intercession for 
them? Was there no suffering by the Father when 
He gave His only begotten Son that believing we 
might have eternal life? 


“ Tskewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmitses: for 
we know not what we should pray for as we ought: 
but the spirit ttself maketh intercession for us with 
groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that 
searcheth the heart knoweth what is the mind of 
the Spirit, because he maketh wtercession for the 
saints according to the will of God.’—Rom. 
S2)20727; 

“Tn all their affliction he was afflicted, and the Angel 
of ius presence saved them: in his love and in his 
pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and car- 
ried them all the days of old.’—Isatau 63: 9, 


“Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our 
sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of 
God and afflicted.’—IsataH 53: 4. 


“According to the Scripture, I find that 
God is true, ‘but every (mortal) man a 
liar.’ ’—S. & H. 113: 23-25. 


The words “ liar” or “ liars ” occur about twenty 
times in the Scripture. In no case is it stated that 
every (mortal) man is a liar. 


“T said in my haste, All men are liars.” 
—Psaum 116: 11. 


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This statement is given as a hasty expression, not 
as an existing condition. 


“For what if some did not believe? Shall their un- 
belief make the faith of God without effect? God 
forbid! Yea, let God be true, but every man a 
liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified 
in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou 
art judged.”—Rom. 3: 3, 4. 


Paul here refers to the “ faith of God” as true. 
The last sentence is one of comparison, but does 
not state that every man is a liar. Scripture does 
say, however, as follows: 


“Who ts a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the 
Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father 
and the Son.’—I Joun 2: 22. 


If the Son is denied, the Father is also denied, 
because Scripture states: 


“ He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the 
Father which hath sent him.’—Joun 5:23. 

“ For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn 
the world; but that the world through him might 
be saved.’—JouN 3:17. 


“Christian Science strongly emphasizes 
the thought that God is not corporeal, but 
incorporeal,—that is, bodiless. Mortals are 
corporeal, but God is incorporeal.”—S, & H. 
116: 20-23. | 


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God is corporeal in a spiritual body. Here we have 
the Lord representing Himself with the corporeal 
parts of face, hands and back parts. 


“And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth 
by, that I will put thee in a cleft of the rock, and 
will cover thee with my hand while I pass by: and 
I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my 

’ back parts; but my face shall not be seen.’— 
HxopUSpoo 22. 20: 


And we remember that man was made in His 
image, the express image of His person. 


“Who being the brightness of hts glory, and the ex- 
press image of his person, and upholding all things 
by the word of his power, when he had by himself 
purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the 
Majesty on high.’—Hes. 1: 3. 


“The point at issue between Christian 
Science on the one hand, and popular the- 
ology on the other is this: Shall Science ex- 
plain cause and effect as being both natural 
and spiritual? Or shall all that is beyond 
the cognizance of the material senses be 
called supernatural, and be left to the 
mercy of speculative hypotheses? ’”—S. & 
H. 126: 15-21. 


While granted that there is both the natural and 
the spiritual, we make answer to the questions 
asked. Scripture teaches that the Holy Spirit will 


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teach us if we seek Him, even of that which is 
beyond the material senses. 


“And he said unto me, It 1s done. I am Alpha and 
Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto 
him that ts athirst of the fountain of the water of 
life freely.’—Rev. 21: 6. 


All creation is commonly known as being termed 
both spiritual and natural. Man, when he dies, is 
said by Scripture to be sown a natural body and 
raised a spiritual body. 


“Tt 1s sown a natural body, it ts raised a spiritual 
body. There is a natural body, and there is a 
spirsiual body.’—I Cor. 15: 44. 


Scripture teaches that the natural man cannot know 
the things of the Spirit, therefore, faith, hope and 
love, these spiritual things that abide, must come 
from God, who forms both natural and spiritual 
things. 


“ But the natural man receiveth not the things of the 
spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: 
neither can he know them, because they are spirt- 
tually discerned.—I Cor. 2: 14. 

“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that 
not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.”’— 
Hex. 2: 8. 


We are not expected, according to Scripture, to 
know all things now. 


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“O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and 
knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his 
judgments, and his ways past finding out! For 
who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who 
hath been his counsellor? ... For of him, and 
through him, and to him, are all things: to whom 
be glory forever. Amen.’—Rom. 11: 33, 34, 36. 

“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then 
face to face: now I know in part, but then shall I 
know even as alsol am known. And now abideth 
faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of 
these ss charity.’—I Cor. 13:12, 13. 


Therefore Scripture justifies the assertion that any 
attempt to build a spiritual life upon the soul, spirit 
or mind of the natural man will be building upon 
sand and not upon the one foundation Christ 
Jesus—the Rock. 


“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and 
the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by 
me.’—JOHN 14:6, 

“Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptised 
every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for 
the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gsft 
of the Holy Ghost.’—Acts 2: 38. 


“Tt has been said, and truly, that Chris- 
tianity must be Science, and Science must be 


Christianity, else one or the other is false and 
useless.”—S. & H. 135: 21-23, 


Science is recognised in Scripture, and in doing 


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so it is stated that there is a science falsely 
so-called. 


“O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy 
trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and 
oppositions of science falsely so called; whsch some 
professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace 
be with thee. Amen.’—I Timortuy 6: 20, 21. 


Science, in its true sense, is mentioned as learning, 
occurring as a word only twice, we believe, in Holy 
Scripture. 


“Children in whom was no blemish, but well fa- 
voured, and skillful in all wisdom, and cunning in 
knowledge, and understanding science, and such as 
had ability «n them to stand in the king’s palace, and 
whom they might teach the learning and the tongue 
of the Chaldeans.’—Dan. 1:4. 


There was nothing made more clear in the Holy 
Word, so far as the writer is informed, than Chris- 
tianity and non-Christianity. The one is believing 
on the Lord Jesus Christ, so being saved ;—the 
other is not believing, which results in being con- 
demned. ‘The first, believing on the Lord Jesus 
Christ, is to believe what He says. 


“Tt ts the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth 
nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are 
spirit, and they are life.’—Joun 6:63. 

“ He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, 
he it 1s that loveth me: and he that loveth me, shall 


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be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and 
will manifest myself to him:’—Joun 14: 21. 


The second is not to receive and believe what 
He says. 


“And tf any man hear my words and belseve not, I 
judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, 

but to save the world. 

“He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my 
words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I 
have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last 
day.”’—JouHN 12:47, 48. 

“ Fle that believeth on him 1s not condemned: but he 
that believeth not 1s condemned already, because he 
hath not believed in the name of the only begotten 
son of God.”—Joun 3: 18. 


Here are given some of the words which Jesus 
Christ taught and which we are to believe if we 
are to be one with Him, 


“Now ye are clean through the word which I have 
spoken unto you. Abide in me and I m you. As 
the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it 
absde in the vine; no more can ye, except that ye 
abide in me... . This is my commandment, That 
ye love one another, as I have loved you.’— 
Joun 15: 3, 4, 12. 

“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: 
not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not 
your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”— 
Joun 14:27. 

“ And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own 


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self with the glory which I had with thee before the 
world was.’’—JouN 17: 5. 


Here are some of the words of Jesus Christ which 
serve as a warning and which we are to believe: 


“ He that believeth and és baptised shall be saved; but 
he that belseveth not shall be damned.’—Mark 
16: 16. 

“ But when we are judged, we are chastened of the 
Lord, that we should not be condemned with the 
world.’—I Cor. 11: 32. 

“ Knowing that he that $s such is subverted, and sin- 
neth, being condemned of himself.’—Titus 3:11. | 

“Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, 
Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, 
prepared for the devil and his angels.’—Matr. 
25:41. 


“With his usual impetuosity, Simon re- 
plied for his brethren, and his reply set forth 
a great fact: ‘ Thou art the Christ, the son of 
the living God!’ That is: The Messiah is 
what thou hast declared,—Christ, the spirit 
of God, of Truth, Life, and Love, which 
heals mentally."—S. & H. 137: 16-21. 


This singular rendering of the words of Jesus 
by the author of S. & H. is shown to be incorrect 
by a number of Scripture passages. It was evi- 
dently so construed by the author, in her attempt to 
make good her theory, that Jesus was not the 
Christ, but revealed the Christ. The following 
Scripture shows the error of the author of S. & H. 


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“But these are written that ye might believe that 
Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that be- 
lieving ye msght have life through lis name.’— 
Joun 20: 31. 


No language could make more distinct the truth 
that Jesus is Himself the Christ. 

_ The Scripture by Matthew is equally plain in its 
statement of Jesus as the Christ by the birth in the 
manger. 


“Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: 
When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, 
before they came together, she was found wrth 
child of the Holy Ghost.’—Marr. 1: 18. 


Also the Scripture in Mark gives us the simple 
truth of the deity of Jesus: 


“And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I 
am? And Peter answereth and saith unto him, 
Thou art the Christ.’—Mark 8: 29, 


Luke’s account is also made plain as Scripture 
always gives its message. Here the disciples, an- 
swering the question of Jesus, ““Whom say the 
people that Iam?” replied in the following verse: 


“They answering said, John the Baptist; but some 
say, Elias; and others say, that one of the old 
prophets is risen again. He said unto them, But 
whom say ye that lam? Peter answering sasd, The 
Christ of God.’—Luxe 9:19, 20, 


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Then we have Peter’s answer in as direct and un- 
mistakable worded reply, so that there appears no 
good excuse for the construction of “The Messiah 
is what thou hast declared,” as construed by S. & H. 


“It was now evident to Peter that divine 
Life, Truth, and Love, and not a human per- 
sonality, was the healer of the sick and a 
rock, a firm foundation in the realm of har- 
mony.”’—S. & H. 38: 6-9. 


It could not have been evident to Peter that it 
was not a human personality as well as a personal 
deity, who was the healer of the sick, for here are 
Peter’s words in Scripture: 


“He satd unto them, But whom say ye that I am? 
Peter answering said, The Christ of God.’— 
UR ee i20: 


God is the witness that the human personality, upon 
whom the Spirit in the likeness of a dove rested, 
was His beloved Son. 


“And lo, a voice from heaven, saying, This is my 
beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.’— 
MAR OL? 


“Not materially but spiritually we know 
Him as divine Mind, as Life, Truth, and 
Love.”—S,. & H. 140: 7, 8. 


A page of quotations can be given in which Jesus 


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Christ is mentioned in Scripture as both man and 
God. We give first the one from John’s Gospel in 
which God is mentioned as becoming flesh and 
being with mankind, and witnessed by John the 
Baptist. 


“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among 
us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the 
only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and 
truth. John bare witness of him, and cried, saysng, 
This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after 
me 1s preferred before me; for he was before 
me.’—JOHN 1:14, 15. 


Again it is proven by Scripture that although in- 
heriting a spiritual body Jesus took upon Himself 
the human body. 


“ For verily he took not on him the nature of angels, 
but he took on him the seed of Abraham. Where- 
fore in all things 1t behooves him to be made like 
unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and 
fasthful high priest in things pertaining to God, to 
make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For 
in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he 
is able to succour them that are tempted.”— 
Hep, 2: 16-18. 

“Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fash- 
toned like unto his glorious body, according to the 
working whereby he is able even to subdue all 
things unto himself.’—Puit, 3:21. 


“ Should we implore a corporeal God to 
heal the sick out of His personal volition, or 


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should we understand the infinite divine 
Principle which heals? If we rise no higher 
than blind faith, the Science of healing is not 
attained.”——S. & H. 167: 1-3. 


We quote from Scripture two instances through 


which the theory above advanced by S$. & H. comes 


to 


naught. They are, among others, the healing 


by the faith given the woman having an issue of 
blood and the giving of sight to the two blind men 


ac 


cording to their faith. 


“For she said within herself, If I may but touch his 


garment, I shall be whole. But Jesus turned him 
about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter be 
of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. 
And the woman was made whole from that hour. 
... And when he was come into the house, the 
blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, 
Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said 
unto him, yea, Lord. Then touched he their eyes, 
saying, According to your faith be it unto you.’— 
WATE Oo 2b 22 2829, 


“Mortal mind and body are one. Neither 
exists without the other, and both must be 
destroyed by immortal Mind. Matter or 
body, is but a false concept of mortal mind.” 
—S. & H. 177:9, 


The apostle Paul gives a different method of 


spiritual attainment, and one that does not agree 
with the above. ‘That method of S. & H. lacks 


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Scriptural authority. The extinction of the nat- 
ural body, according to Scripture, comes about by 
death in order that a spiritual body may eventually 
be given. 


“For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being 
burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but 
clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up 
of life.’—II Cor. 5:4. 


We are to keep in respect and with thankfulness 
this comparatively poor and weak frame and mind 
that we may, when God wills, be clothed upon with 
the life which God can give. 


“Mistaking his origin and nature, man 
believes himself to be combined matter and 


Spirit."—S. & H. 171: 17, 18. 


Scripture quotations which we give confute the 
above, showing that man is made as asserted by our 
Saviour with heart, soul, and mind, that the com- 
plex nature of man includes a spirit of man. 


“Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: 
the spirit indeed ts willing, but the flesh is weak.”— 
Marr, 16:41. 

“ The Lord Jesus Christ be with our spirit. Grace be 
with you. Amen.’—II Tim. 4: 22. 

“Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy 
God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and 
with all thy mind.”—Marr., 22: 37. 


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It is true, also, that the spiritual change in man 
comes from God. 


“A new heart also will I give you, and a new Spirit 
well I put within you: and I will take away the 
stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a 
heart of flesh.’—EzEKIEL, 36: 26. 


Such change does not come as stated by the author 
of S. & H.: 


“Tn either case you must improve your 
mental condition till you finally attain the 
understanding of Christian Science.”—S. & 
HL Sh. 18: 


The following quotation from S. & H. gives a 
very low and entirely false idea of God’s dealing 
with man: 


“The demands of God appeal to thought 
only.”—S. & H. 182:5. 


Scripture—the truth—is God’s method of dealing 
with us. 


“ But the natural man receiveth not the things of the 
spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: 
neither can he know them, for they are spiritually 
discerned.” —I Cor, 2: 14, 

“ Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I 
say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he can- 
not see the kingdom of God.”—Joun 3:3. 


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“Can the agriculturalist, according to be- 
lief, produce a crop without sowing a seed 
and awaiting its germination according to the 
laws of nature? The answer is no, and yet 
the Scriptures inform us that sin, or error, 
first caused the condemnation of man to till 
the ground, and indicate that obedience to 
God will remove this necessity. Truth never 
made error necessary, nor devised a law to 
perpetuate error.”—S. & H, 183:8-15. 


Here is a presumption on the part of a human 
mind to judge the why and wherefore of its Cre- 
ator in relation to His judgments, and in doing 
so Scripture is misinterpreted by the author of 
Ge EL. 


“ Nay but, O man, who are thou that repliest agasnst 
God? Shall the thing formed say to him that 
formed tt, Why hast thou made me thus? ’”— 
Rom. 9: 20. 

“And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, 
Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely 
eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good 
and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day 
that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely dte.’— 
Gen. 2: 16, 17. 


It is not mentioned what kind of fruit the other 
trees of the Garden bore, but every tree beside the 
forbidden tree is mentioned as given Adam for 
food to gather, and as Adam could eat of every 
tree except the tree prohibited it is evident that he 


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had access to the tree of life that stood in the midst 
of the Garden. 


“ And the Lord God took the man, and put him into 
the garden of Eden to dress 1t and to keep tt.’— 
Gen. 2:15. 


Now Adam’s occupation was at first simply to dress 
the Garden of Eden, a specially prepared place for 
his work; prepared by God, who made the lilies of 
the field to grow and be clothed with glory. But 
when Adam disobeyed and thus placed himself out 
of the confidence of his Creator, he was cast out 
of the Garden and lost even the opportunity of 
eating from the tree of the knowledge of good 
and evil. 


“ For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, 
then your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as 
gods, knowing good and evil. And when the 
woman saw that the tree was good for food, and 
that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be 
desired to make one wise, she took of the frust 
thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her hus- 
band with her; avd he did eat... . 

“Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from 
the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence 
he was taken. So he drove out the man: and he 
placed at the east of the garden of Eden, Cheru- 
bims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, 
to keep the way of the tree of life.’—Gern, 3:5, 6, 
23, 24. 


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Contrary to the interpretation of the Scriptural 
account made by the author of S. & H., the con- 
demnation was not of man, but of the ground for 
man’s sake, and that which Adam might have cared 
for with joy, he was now to till in sorrow. 


“And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast heark- 
ened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of 
the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou 
shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy 
sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of 
thy life. Thorns also and thistles shall it bring 
forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the 
field”’—GeEn, 3:17, 18. 


“Christian Science destroys material be- 
liefs through the understanding of Spirit, 
and thoroughness of this work determines 
health.”—S. & H. 186: 5-7. 


Scripture affirms that the natural man cannot 
attain to the understanding of spirit. 

We have no record outside of that of our 
Saviour’s words and life of any man exceeding the 
spiritual understanding of the apostle Paul, who 
attributes his understanding to his being a new man 
in Jesus Christ. Yet to Paul complete health was 
denied. He still had the thorn in the flesh. 


“ But the natural man recewveth not the things of the 
spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: 
neither can he know them, because they are are 
spiritually discerned. For who hath known the 


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mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But 
we have the mind of Chrost.’—I Cor. 2: 14, 16. 

“ Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and 
hath anointed us, ts God; who hath also sealed us, 
and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.” — 
Py Cope ely AZ. 

“ Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not 
unto thine own understanding.’—Prov. 3: 5. 

“ And lest I should be exalted above measure through 
the abundance of the revelations, there was given to 
me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to 


buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.” 
—ITI Cor. 12:7. 


“The sins of others should not make good 
men suffer.”—-S. & H, 189: 13. 


This is contrary to the teachings of the Gospel 
of Jesus Christ. 


“ All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned 
every one to his own way; and the Lord hath lasd 
on him the iniquity of us all”’—Isatau 53:6. 

“ Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law 
of Christ.’—Gat, 6:2, 


“The brain can give no idea of God’s man. 
It can take no cognizance of Mind. Matter 
is not the organ of infinite Mind.”—S. & 
H. 191: 1-3. 


Scripture states that the spirit of man knoweth 
the things of a man, All men are created by God, 


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therefore belong to God. It is the Spirit of God 
who brings spiritual things to men. 


“ For what man knoweth the things of a man, save 
the spirit of man which is in him? even so the 
things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of 
God.”’—I Cor. 2:11. 


“ Spirit is not separate from God. Spirit 
is God.”—S. & H. 192: 9. 


All spirit is not the Spirit. We are to try the 
spirits to see if they be of God. 


“ Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spsrits 
whether they are of God, because many false 
prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby 
know ye the Spirit of God: every spirit that con- 
fesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh 1s of 
God: ... We are of God: he that knoweth God 
heareth us; he that ss not of God heareth not us. 
Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit 
of error.’—I Joun 4:1, 2, 6. 


The spirit of S. & H. which disbelieves that Christ 
has come in the flesh in the person of Jesus Christ 
is not of God. God is a Spirit, but all spirit is not 
God. Nowhere in Scripture is it said that “ spirit 
is God.” 


The spirit of error is separate from God. 


“The point for each one to decide is, 
whether it is mortal mind or immortal Mind 


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that is causative. We should forsake the 
basis of matter for metaphysical Science and 
its divine Principle.’”—S. & H. 195: 11-14. 


“Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; 
neither say thou before the angel that 1t was an 
error: Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice 
and destroy the work of thine hands? ”’—Kccu. 
530. 

“As for my people, children are their oppressors, and 
women rule over them. O my people, they which 
led thee caused thee to err, and destroy the way of 
thy paths,’—Isatau 3:12. 

“And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and 
brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of 
you shall they cause to be put to death.”’—LuKE 
PALO, 

“ And the Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be 
heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, 
with the imdtignation of his anger and with the 
flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tem- 
pest, and hailstones.’—Isatau 30: 30. 

“Behold my servant, whom I uphold, mine elect m 
whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit 
upon hem: he shall bring forth judgment to the 
Gentiles. He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause 
his voice to be heard in the street.’—IsalaAH 
Aga liZ: 

“ He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through 
and he made the waters to stand as a heap.’— 
Psaum 78: 13. 

“And being brought on thew way by the church, they 
passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the 
conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great 
joy unto all the brethren.”—Acts 15: 3. 


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“ Life is God.”—S. & H. 200:.11. 


Jesus says, “I am the way, the truth and the 
life ’—The eternal life is with God—Jesus Christ 
is with God the Father. Ordinary life as it relates 
to mankind is not God, but a creation of God. 
It also relates to animals and plants. Such life is 
not God. There is no authority in Scripture for 
such a statement, but there is authority in Scripture 
for the contrary. 


“T have said to corruption, Thou art my father; to 
the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.’— 
Jos 17: 14. 

“For length of days, and long life, ard peace, shall 
they add to thee.’—Prov. 3: 2. 

“ Therefore, I hated lsfe; because the work that is 
wrought under the sun 1s grievous unto me: for all 
is vanity and vexation of spirit.’—Eccr, 2:17. 

“ For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spir- 
itually minded ts life and peace.’’—Rom. 8: 6. 

“When Christ, who ts our life, shall appear, then 
shall ye also appear with him in glory.’—Cot,. 3: 4. 

_“ For we must all appear before the judgment seat of 

_ Christ; that everyone may receive the things done 
in hts body, according to that he hath done whether 
it be good or bad.”—II Cor. 5:10. 

“ For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he 
given to the Son to have life in himself;’—JoHN 
S20. 

“ Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrectton, and the 
life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, 
yet shall he live”’—Joun 11:25. 


IIf 


FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION— 
SCIENCE OF BEING 


N this chapter we give consideration to chap- 
ters of S. & H., termed therein, Footsteps of 
Truth, Creation, and Science of Being. 


“The best sermon ever preached is Truth 
practised and demonstrated by the destruc- 
tion of sin, sickness, and death. Knowing 
this and knowing, too, that one affection 
would be supreme in us and take the lead in 
our lives, Jesus said, “No man can serve 
two masters.’ ””—S. & H, 201: 1-6. 


Notwithstanding the portion of truth that exists 
in the above statement by S. & H., it is noticeable 
that in what many consider the best sermon ever 
preached (the Sermon on the Mount) the Beati- 
tudes or blessings of the first chapter which may 
be considered as the text for the sermon chapters 
following, do not contain the words sin, sickness, 
or death, as expressed in the model proposed by 
©. & H. in its statement. 

While these blessings certainly commend right- 
eousness, yet the mercy and blessing of God is made 


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FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 51 


the foundation of joy and happiness rather than 
such righteousness as men are capable of practicing. 
Notice that when righteousness is first referred to 
the blessing is not mentioned as pertaining to those 
who have righteousness, but rather to those who 
hunger and thirst after it. No one hungers and 
thirsts for that he already possesses. Our right- 
“eousness must exceed that of the scribes and Phari- 
sees. It must come from God. We must be 
born again. 


“We cannot fill vessels already full. 
They must first be emptied. Let us disrobe 
error. Then when the winds of God blow, 
we shall not hug our tatters close about us. 

“The way to extract error from mortal 
mind is to pour in truth through flood-tides 
of Love. Christian perfection is won on no 
other basis.”—S, & H. 201: 13-19. 


It is contrary to Scripture’s method to state that 
we must disrobe error. 


“ For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed 
upon with our house which is from heaven: if so 
be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. 
For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being 
burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but 
clothedsupon, that mortality might be swallowed up 
of life.’—II Cor. 5:2, 3, 4. 


It is being clothed that makes us new creatures in 
Christ Jesus. 


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“T put on righteousness, and st clothed me: my judg- 
ment was as a robe and a diadem.’—Jos 29: 14. 

“T wall greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be 
joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the 
garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the 
robe of righteousness as a bridegroom decketh him- 
self with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth her- 
self with her jewels.’—Isatau 61: 10. 


The victory is in faith in Jesus Christ; it is not 
in man. 


“ But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for 
sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God; 
. . « For by one offering he hath perfected for ever 
them that are sanctified.’—Hep. 10: 12, 14. 


“ The scientific unity which exists between 
God and man must be wrought out in life- 
practice, and God’s will must be universally 


done.”—S. & H. 202: 3-5. 


Man of himself cannot do God’s will universally. 
Our Saviour directed us to pray to our Father in 
heaven that His will be done on earth as it is in 
heaven. God must work in us to do His will. 


“ After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father 
which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy 
kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it 1s 
on heaven.’—Matt. 6:9, 10. 

“Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, 
not as in my presence only, but now much more in 


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my absence, work out your own salvation with fear 
and trembling.’—PHIL,. 2: 12, 


“Our beliefs about a Supreme Being con- 
tradict the practice growing out of them. 
Error abounds where Truth should ‘much 
more abound.’ We admit that God has 
almighty power, is ‘a very present help in 
trouble ;’ and yet we rely on a drug or hyp- 
notism to heal disease, as if senseless matter 
or erring mortal mind had more power than 


omnipotent Spirit.’—S. & H. 202: 24-30. 


There is something far more precious in our 
beliefs about (or in) a Supreme Being, than the 
healing of disease. 

If by faith in God we make use of that which in 
His mercy He has provided for cures, we not only 
honour Him for His wise provision, but we use the 
intelligence which He has given us, in effecting 
cures in the usual way without always the neces- 
sity of signs and wonders by which He made 
known His power to heal, that men might believe 
that He was the Son of God. 

If a vein is opened and the blood, which is our 
life, flows—it is far more in keeping with our 
faith in God to tie a bandage above the opening 
and thus stop the flow, than to refuse to work with 
God and ask Him to stop the flow without our 
help. If there-is a remedy for disease which has 
for centuries—or a shorter time—been proven to 
be effective in the cure of human ailments, we dis- 


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honour both it and likewise the Creator, by refus- 
ing to use it, or to work thus with God for the 
salvation of our body, as we likewise should work 
with God in spiritual matters for the salvation of 
our souls. 

Does the mother who gives her babe milk to 
sustain its life, by doing so, show that she relies 
more on senseless matter or erring, mortal mind 
than on Omnipotent spirit? 

When Jesus told His disciples to cast the net on 
the side of the ship where the fish swam, did He 
honour any the less, or rely any the less, upon His 
Father in heaven, than if He had directed the fish 
to come around to the side where the net was? 


“And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right 
side of the shtp, and ye shall find. They cast there- 
fore, and now they were not able to draw 1t for the 
multstude of fishes. As soon then as they were 
come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish 
laid thereon, and bread. . . . Jesus saith unto them, 
Come and dine. And none of the disciples durst 
ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it was the 
Lord.’—Joun 21:6, 9, 12. 


When Jesus prepared a dinner for the disciples, 
did He rely any the less on His Father by doing so? 

When Jesus fed the multitude, He did not de- 
spise or neglect the means at hand to work His 
miracle with, but used it. 


“And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? 


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And they said, Seven. ... So they did eat, and 
were filled: and they took up of the broken meat 
that was left seven baskets.’—Mark 8: 5, 8. 


“All forms of error support the false con- 


clusions that there is more than one Life.”— 
S. & H. 204: 3-4. 


There is the natural created life in man, and the 
life eternal, or eternal life, that is in Jesus Christ 
and must be given to man by God the Father 
through the Son if man is to possess it. 

Man’s life is dependent upon God. Eternal Life 
is not dependent. Jesus is the way, the truth, and 
the life. 

“Jesus sasth unto him, I am the way, the truth and 
the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by 
me.’—JOHN 14:6, 

“For to be carnally minded ¢s death; but to be spir- 
itually minded is life and peace.’—Rom. 8: 6. 

“For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in 
God,”—CoL, 3: 3. 

“ That he no longer should live the rest of his time in 
the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of 
God.”—I PETER 4:2. 

“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the 
ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of 
life; and man became a living soul.’—GEN. 2:7. 


There was a life which Adam did not have a right 
to, as he found himself outside of the Garden of 


Eden. (The Tree of Life.) 


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“So he drove out the man: and he placed at the east 
of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming 
sword which turned every way, to keep the way of 
the tree of life.’—GrEn. 3: 24. 

“Blessed are they that do his commandments, that 
they may have right to the tree of life, and may 
enter in through the gates into the city.’—REv. 
22: 14, 


“God created all through Mind, and made 
all perfect and eternal. Where, then, is the 
necessity for recreation or procreation? ”— 


8. & H. 205: 12-14. 


Scripture gives a different account of that which 
God created from the account given by S. & H. 
All that pertains to man may be swallowed up by 
the earth. Nothing is eternal but that which God 
wills to be eternal. 


“But tf the Lord make a new thing, and the earth 
open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that 
appertain unto them, and they go down quick into 
the pit; then ye shall understand that these men 
have provoked the Lord.’—Nvm. 16: 30. 


God’s life is in Himself. Man’s existence is de- 
pendent on God. 


“ All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all 
that was in the dry land, died.’—GEN. 7: 22. 


Scripture informs us that the Word of God created 


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all things, and that this Word was made flesh and 
dwelt among us, and that this Word was God. 


“Tn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was 
wth God, and the Word was God. The same was 
in the beginning with God. All things were made 
by him; and wtthout him was not anything made 
that was made. In him was life; and the ltfe was 
the light of men. And the light shineth in dark- 
ness; and the darkness comprehended it not.’— 
Joun 1:1-5. 


Scripture does not inform us that mind was the 
creator. Man is a creature, therefore, has his mind 
created in him, and is not qualified to understand 
the mind of God until he does so as a new creature 
in Christ Jesus. 


“ For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth 
for the manifestation of the Sons of God. For the 
creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, 
but by reason of him who hath subjected the same 
in hope. ... And he that searcheth the hearts 
knoweth what is the mind of the Spsrit, because he 
maketh intercession for the saints according to the 


will of God.”—Rom. 8: 19, 20, 27. 


The mind of the natural man is not the mind 
of God. ‘ 


“Do not err, my beloved brethren. Every good gift 
and every perfect gift 1s from above, and cometh 
down from the father of lights, with whom is 


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no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of his 
own will begat he us with the word of truth, that 
we should be a kind of first frusts of hts creatures.” 
—James 1: 16-18. 

“ Therefore 1f any man be sn Christ, he is a new 
creature: old things are passed away; behold, all 
things are become new.”—II Cor. 5:17. 


 Will- pPOWEE is capable of all evil.” 
—S. & H. 206: 10. 


But will power in man is one exercise of his mind. 
Therefore, the mind of man and the mind of God 
are unlike. Thus evil, instead of being unreal, 
becomes a reality, of which the mind of man is 


capable. 

“A material body only expresses a mate- 
rial and mortal mind. A mortal man pos- 
sesses this body, and he makes it harmoni- 
ous or discordant according to the images of 
thought impressed upon it. . 

“ Man, being immortal, has a perfect in- 
destructible life. It is the mortal belief 
which makes the body discordant and dis- 
eased in proportion as ignorance, fear, or 
human will governs mortals.”—S. & H. 
PAW oleic 


As these two statements of S. & H. contradict 
each other, no other comment is called for, than 
that they are unexplainable. 


“ Adam, represented in the Scriptures as 
formed from dust, is an object-lesson for the 


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human mind. The material senses, like 
Adam, originate in matter and return to 
dust,—are proved non-intelligent. They go 
out as they came in, for they are still the 
error, not the truth of being.”—S. & H. 
214: 9-14. 


Scripture states that God created man, not only 
‘that He formed man, but also that He breathed into 
his nostrils the breath of life. ‘The material senses 
of man were created in him, the breath of life of 
man God breathed into his nostrils. 


“ So God created man in his own smage, in the image 
of God created he him; male and female created he 
them.’—GEN. 1:27. 

“ And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the 
ground, and breathed into hts nostrils the breath of 
life; and man became a living soul.’—GEN, 2:7. 

“In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 
And the light shineth in the darkness ; and the dark- 
ness comprehended it not.”—Joun 1:4, 5. 

“Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; 
thou crownest him wth glory and honour: and 
didst set him over the works of thy hands: ... 
Wherefore in all things st behooved him to be made 
like unto his brethren, that he might be merciful 
and a faithful high priest in things pertaining to 
God, to make reconciliatson for the sins of the 
people.’—Hes, 2:7, 17. 


“Entire immunity from the belief in sin, 
suffering, and death may not be reached at 
this period, but we may look for an abate- 


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ment of these evils; and this scientific begin- 
ning is in the right direction.”—S. & H. 
219: 29-32. 


No statement to the contrary of this assertion of 
S. & H. could be more direct than the Scripture 
gives of the work of the Holy Spirit. 


“ And when he is come, he will reprove the world of 
sin and of righteousness, and of judgment.’— 
Joun 16:8. 


“The belief that either fasting or feasting 
makes men better morally or physically is 
one of the fruits of ‘the tree of knowledge 
of good and evil,’ concerning which God 
said, ‘ Thou shalt not eat of it.”—S. & H. 
ZL ah 


Scripture mentions that the tree forbidden to 
Adam and Eve, the tree of knowledge of good and 
evil, had made Adam and Eve to know both good 
and evil, and fasting is commended for a good pur- 
pose by our Saviour and by Paul. 


“ And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become 
as one of us, to know good and evil and now, lest he 
put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, 
and eat, and live forever ;’—GEN. 3: 22. 

“And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could 
not cure him. . . . Howbest this kind goeth not out 
but by prayer and fasting.’”—Martvt. 17: 16, 21. 

“In stropes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, 
in watchings, in fastings.’—II Cor. 6:5. 


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“And when he had fasted forty days and forty 
nights, he was afterward ahungered.’—Matv’. 4: 2. 


“ Paul said, ‘I was free born.’ 

“Tf God had instituted material laws to 
govern man, disobedience to which would 
have made man ill, Jesus would not have 
disregarded those laws by healing in direct 
opposition to them and in defiance of all ma- 
terial conditions.’—S. & H. 227-28: 19, 30, 


Jesus overruled the laws of health for a purpose. 
He tells why. He also recognised the laws of 
health. 

“But that ye may know that the Son of man hath 
power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to 
the sick of the palsy), Arise, take up thy bed, and 
go unto thine house.’—Marr. 9: 6. 

“Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine. And none 
of the disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? 
knowing that it was the Lord.’—JouN 21:12. 

“And if I send them away fasting to their own 
houses, they will faint by the way; for divers of 
them came from far.’-—Mark 8: 3. 


“Tf God makes sin, if good produces 
evil, if truth results in error, then Science 
and Christianity are helpless..—S. & H. 
Zo Pi Ze 13) 


However the human opinion may differ, the fol- 
lowing is Scripture: 


“TI form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, 


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and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.’— 
TsatAH 45:7, 


“ Shall a trumpet be blown in the csty and the people 
not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the 
Lord hath not done it?’’—Amos 3:6. 


“ Scripture informs us that ‘ with God all 
things are possible, —all good is possible to 
Spirit; but our prevalent theories practically 
deny this, and make healing possible only 
through matter. These theories must be un- 
true, for the Scripture is true. Christianity 
is not false, but religions which contradict 
its Principle are false.”—S, & H. 232: 9-15, 


“ Judge not the Lord by feeble sense.” 

Religion, as given in a definition by the “ Ency- 
clopedia Brittannica,”’ 1s “ Lactantius may be wrong 
in his etymology, but he has certainly seized the 
broad, popular sense of the word when he connects 
it with the obligation by which man is bound to an 
invisible God.” According to Jesus Christ, there 
is only one way by which such obligation can meet 
its fulfillment. 


“T am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall 
be saved, and shall go m and out, and find pas- 
ture.”’—Joun 10:9, 


But what must we say of so-called Christian 
Science upon its own statement just given above 
upon comparing it with Scripture? 


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“To ascertain our progress, we must 
learn where our affections are placed and 
whom we acknowledge and obey as God. If 
divine Love is becoming nearer, dearer, and 
more real to us, matter is then submitting to 
Spirit. The objects we pursue and the spirit 
we manifest reveal our standpoint, and show 
what we are winning.”—S, & H. 239: 16-22. 


The above is a plain statement which is worthy 
of every serious consideration, insofar as it relates 
to our spiritual as well as our material welfare. 

We, therefore, set forth in a few sentences the 
well known Gospel of Jesus Christ in His own 
words and of His Father’s. From a child, Jesus 
proclaimed Himself as being about His Father’s 
business. The name of His Father is Love. 


“And he said unto them, How ts it that you sought 
me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's 
business? ”—LUKE 2:49, 

“And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape 
like a dove upon him, and a voice came from 
heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son, in 
thee I am well pleased.’—LUKE 3: 22. 

“ And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee be- 
hind me, Satan: for it 1s written, Thou shalt wor- 
ship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou 
serve. ... Now when the sun was setting, all they 
that had any sick wnth dwers diseases brought them 
unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of 
them and healed them. And devils also came out 
of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ 
the Son of God. And he rebuking them suffered 


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them not to speak; for they knew that he was 
Christ.’—LuKE 4:8, 40, 41. 


John mentions in no uncertain way that the man 
Christ Jesus was God, the Word made flesh who 
dwelt among us. 


“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was 
with God, and the Word was God. ... And the 
Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and 
we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begot- 
ten of the Father) full of grace and truth.’— 
Joun 1:1, 14. 


Surely Jesus Christ could speak as follows: 


“ For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have 
loved me, and have believed that I came out from 
God. I came forth from the Father, and am come 
into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to 
the Father.’—Joun 16: 27, 28. 

“ Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and 
the life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 
If ye had known me, ye should have known my 
Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and 
have seen him... . Jesus saith unto him, Have I 
been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not 
known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath 
seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew 
us the Father?”—Joun 14:6, 7, 9, 


“To hold yourself superior to sin, because 
God made you superior to it and governs 
man, is true wisdom.”’—S. & H. 231: 20. 


FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 65 


“ Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, 
so also the soul of the son 1s mine: the soul that 
sinneth, ¢¢ shall die.”—EzexK1rEy 18: 4. 


We learn from Scripture that through Jesus 
Christ we are delivered, and not by “ holding our- 
selves superior to sin.” 


“Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for 
his seed remaineth in him; and he cannot stn, be- 
cause he is born of God.’—I JouHN 3:9. 

“So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; 
and unto them that look for him shall be appear the 
second time without sin unto salvation.’—HEs. 
9728. 

“And now my Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in 
thee. Deliver me from all my transgressions ; make 
me not the reproach of the foolish.’—PsauM 
39:7, 8. 


“Let us accept Science, relinquish all the- 
ories based on sense-testimony, give up im- 
perfect models and illusive ideals; and so 
let us have one God, one Mind, and that 
one perfect, producing His own models of 
excellence. 

“ Let the ‘male and female’ of God’s cre- 
ating appear. Let us feel the divine energy 
of Spirit, bringing us into newness of life 
and recognising no mortal nor material 
power as able to destroy. Let us rejoice that 
we are subject to the divine ‘ powers that 
be.’ Such is the true Science of being. Any 
other theory of Life, or God, is delusive and 
mythological. 


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“Mind is not the author of matter, and 
the creator of ideas is not the creator of il- 
lusions. Either there is no omnipotence, or 
omnipotence is the only power.”—S. & H. 


249: 1-14. 


To some who may be working out their own 
salvation with fear and trembling, according to the 
apostle Paul, knowing that the Lord worketh in 
them both to will and to do, the above theory of S. 
& H. may be a temptation to turn from their hope, 
which is an anchor sure and steadfast, and accept 
a theory which has no foundation in Scripture. 

The person is asked to accept a theory that his or 
her mind is identical with the mind of God, and 
that by so believing there is only one mind, and that 
mind is God, thus making naught of the following 
Scripture : 


“O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that 
ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes 
Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, cructfied 
among you? ... And the Scripture, foreseeimng 
that God would justify the heathen through faith, 
preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, 
In thee shall all nations be blessed.”—Gat,. 3:1, 8. 


Is the Christian giving up an imperfect model when 
he gives up the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, whom 
he once received—Three in One—and is he accept- 
ing a perfect model in the varied forms in which 
his own personality is made to take the place of 


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the meek and lowly Jesus whom he once listened to 
and obeyed, and who said: 


“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy 
laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke 
upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and 
lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your 
souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is 
light.’-—Martr, 11:28, 29, 30. 


Is omnipotence the only power God has per- 
mitted? Listen to the answer from the Scripture, 
which is contrary to the teachings of S. & H. 


“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in 
the power of his might. Put on the whole armour 
of God, that ye may be able to stand against the 
wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh 
and blood, but against principalities, against powers, 
agaist the rulers of the darkness of this world, 
against spiritual wickedness in high places. Where- 
fore take unto you the whole armour of God, that 
ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and 
having done all, to stand.’—Epu. 6: 10-13. 


“The false evidence of material sense 
contrasts strikingly with the testimony of 
Spirit. Material sense lifts its voice with the 
arrogance of reality and says: 

“T am wholly dishonest, and no man 
knoweth it. I can cheat, lie, commit adul- 
tery, rob, murder, and I elude detection by 
smooth-tongued villainy. Animal in pro- 
pensity, deceitful in sentiment, fraudulent in 


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purpose, I mean to make my short span of 
life one gala day. What a nice thing is sin! 
How sin succeeds, where the good purpose 
waits! The world is my kingdom. I am 
enthroned in the gorgeousness of matter. 
But a touch, an accident, the law of God, 
may at any moment annihilate my peace, for 
all my fancied joys are fatal. Like bursting 
lava, I expand but to my own despair, and 
shine with the resplendency of consuming 
fire. 

“Spirit bearing opposite testimony saith: 

“T am Spirit. Man, whose senses are 
spiritual, is my likeness. He reflects the in- 
finite understanding, for I am Infinity. The 
beauty of holiness, the perfection of being, 
imperishable glory,—all are Mine, for | am 
God. I give immortality to man, for I am 
Truth. I include and impart all bliss, for I 
am Love. I give life, without beginning and 
without end, for I am Life. I am supreme 
and give all, for [am Mind. I am the sub- 
stance of all, because 1 AM THAT I AM.” 
—S. & H. 252-3: 15-8. 


The above is a further proposal to take away the 
need of the atonement made by Jesus Christ by 
substituting an unnatural exaltation of the nature 
of man as created in Adam. Its attempted sub- 
version of Scripture is best shown by presenting 
Scripture itself. 

Let us begin with the Gospel of Jesus Christ: 


“And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, 


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and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise 
thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.’—GEnN. 
ed Boe 

“Vet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put 
him to grief: when thou shalt make is soul an 
offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall pro- 
long us days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall 
prosper in his hand,’—Isataw 53: 10. 

-“ Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring 
forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, 
which being interpreted ts, God with us.’—Martv. 
si 

“ He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilder- 
ness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said 
the prophet Esaias.’—Joun 1:23. 

“The Spirst of the Lord ts upon me, because he hath 
anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he 
hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach 
deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight 
to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised.” 
—LuKE 4:18. 

“Tt is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth 
nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are 
spirit, and they are life.’—Joun 6: 63. 


Let us look at the need of the Saviour as given 
in Scripture: 


“ For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he 
may instruct him? But we have the mind of 
Christ.’—I Cor. 2: 16. 

“The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second 
man 1s the Lord from heaven.’—I Cor. 15: 47. 

“For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth 
good, and sinneth not.”—Eccu. 7:20. 


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“ Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and 
full of trouble. 
“ He cometh forth like a flower, and ts cut down: 
he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.”— 
Jos 14:1, 2. 


What the atonement made by Jesus Christ has 
accomplished for those who believe in Jesus Christ : 


“And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon 
a pole; and it came to pass, that if a serpent had 
bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of 
brass, he lived.’—Nwum. 21:9. 

“And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilder- 
ness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, 
but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, 
that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever 
belseveth in him should not pertsh, but have ever- 
lasting life. For God sent not his Son into the 
world to condemn the world; but that the world 
through him might be saved.’—Joun 3: 14-17. 

“But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall 
gwe him shall never thirst; but the water that I 
shall give him shall be in him a well of water 
springing up into everlasting life... . The woman 
saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which 
is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all 
things. Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee 
am he.’—Joun 4: 14, 25, 26. 

“And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of lsfe: 
he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he 
that believeth on me shall never thirst... . All 
that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and 
him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. 


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...No man can come to me except the Father 
which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him 
up at the last day. It 1s written in the prophets, 
And they shall be all taught of God. Every man 
‘therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the 
Father, cometh unto me.’—JoHN 6:35, 37, 44, 45. 

* According as he hath chosen us in him before the 
foundation of the world, that we should be holy 
and without blame before him in love.’—-Epu. 1: 4. 

“Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace 
with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.’— 
Rom. 5:1. 


“That God is corporeal or material, no 
man should affirm.”—S, & H. 255: 14. 


In describing Jesus Christ, Scripture is so ex- 
plicit, so plain, that no mistake can possibly be 
made in the reference to the person of God, who is 
mentioned as a Person, after the brightness of His 
glory is mentioned. 


“Who being the brightness of his glory, and the ex- 
press image of his person, and upholding all things 
by the word of his power, when he had by himself 
purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the 
Majesty on high.’—Hes. 1: 3. 


“The theory of three persons in one God 
(that is, a personal Trinity or Triunity) sug- 
gests polytheism, rather than the one ever- 
presentyl AM i Plearmi@)israele the: Lord 
our God is one Lord.’ 

“The everlasting I AM is not bounded 


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nor compressed within the narrow limits of 
physical humanity, nor can He be under- 
stood aright through mortal concepts. The 
precise form of God must be of small impor- 
tance in comparison with the sublime ques- 
tion, What is infinite Mind or divine Love?” 
S. & H. 256: 9-18, 


Scripture mentions three persons as one in the 
Deity—the Father, the Only Begotten Son, and the 
Holy Ghost. 


“ After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father 
which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.’— 
Mario 79, 

“Tn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was 
with God, and the Word was God. ... And the 
Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and 
we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only be- 
gotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.’— 
Joun 1:1, 14. 

“ Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring 
forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, 
which being interpreted is, God with us.’—Mart, 
eae 

“For the prophecy came not in old time by the will 
of man: but holy men of God spake as they were 
moved by the Holy Ghost.’—II Peter 1:21. 

“For there are three that bear record in heaven, the 
Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these 
three are one.’—I Joun 5:7. 


“ Science reveals the possibility of achiev- 
ing all good, and sets mortals at work to dis- 
cover what God has already done; but 


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distrust of one’s ability to gain the goodness 
desired and to bring out better and higher 
results, often hampers the trial of one’s 


wings and ensures failure at the outset.”’— 
Oeicene  2O0 2 13418: 


Goodness is shown by the Lord to men: 


.“ He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and 
what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, 
and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy 
God?”—MicaHu 6:8. 

“Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and 
forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that 
the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? 
..- Who will render to every man according to 
his deeds: ... But glory, honour, and peace, to 
every man that worketh good; to the Jew first, and 
also to the Genttile.’—Rom. 2: 4, 6, 10. 

“And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? 
there is none good but one, that ts, God: but sf thou 
wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.’— 
MATOS D/. 

“T have seen an end of all perfection: but thy com- 
mandment is exceeding broad.’—Psaum 119: 96. 


Men are cautioned in Scripture not to be weary in 
well doing. 


“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due 
season we shall reap, if we faint not.’—GAL,. 6:9. 


“Consecration to good does not lessen 
man’s dependence on God, but heightens it. 
Neither does consecration diminish man’s 


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obligations to God, but shows the paramount 
necessity of meeting them. Christian Science 
takes naught from the perfection of God, but 
it ascribes to Him the entire glory. By put- 
ting ‘ off the old man with his deeds,’ mortals 
‘put on immortality.’ ”—S. & H. 262: 1-8. 


Man’s great obligation to God was that which made 
the atonement of Jesus Christ necessary. He can- 
celled the debt, and all who believe in Him may 
have redemption from the Redeemer—may even 
have the Redeemer—who told us to pray, “ Forgive 
us our debts as we forgive our debtors.” 

S. & H. in quoting, partially, Paul’s sentence in 
Colossians 3:9, evidently did not comprehend its 
meaning. ‘The quotation, as S. & H. puts it above, 
would make it appear that Paul taught to have mor- 
tals “put off the old man” themselves. Such a 
teaching was never given by Paul or any other of 
the apostles. Paul, in the beginning of the chapter, 
writes: 


“Tf ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things 
which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right 
hand of God.’—Cot, 3:1. 


And in the part quoted from by S. & H. does not 
say “ put off the old man,” but does say, following 
up that which he says is accomplished in Christ, 
“Seeing ye have put off the old man with his 
tleeds Colas 1,9, 


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Paul’s teaching does not lead one to feel that we 
can bring the new man by our exertions in putting 
off the old man. Here is what he teaches in an- 
other place: 


“For we that are in thts tabernacle do groan, being 
burdened: not for that we should be unclothed, but 
clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up 
of life... . Therefore if any man be in Christ, he 
is a new creature: old things are passed away; be- 
hold, all things are become new.’—II Cor. 5:4, 17. 

“ Not by works of righteousness which we have done, 
but according to his mercy he saved us, by the 
washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy 
Ghost; which he shed on us abundantly through 
Jesus Christ our Saviour.’—Titus 3:5, 6. 


“Tt is generally conceded that God is 
Father, eternal, self-created, infinite. If this 
is so, the forever Father must have had chil- 
dren prior to Adam. The great I AM made 
all ‘that was made.’ Hence man and the 
spiritual universe coexist with God.”—S. & 


H, 267: 8-12. 


God is indeed Father. His only begotten Son, 
Jesus Christ, is with Him and was with Him in the 
beginning. Adam was created, therefore Adam 
was not co-existent with the Father—Adam came 
after. There were five days of creation, including 
the heavens and the earth, before Adam was 
created. 


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“In the beginning God created the heaven and the 
earth. . . . And the evening and the morning were 
the fifth day. . . . And God said, Let us make man 
in our image, after our likeness: and let them have 
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl 
of the air, and over the catile, and over every creep- 
ing thing that creepeth upon the earth.’—GEN. 
Lie ea Naa, 

“ But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by 
the same word are kept m store, reserved unto fire 
against the day of judgment and perdition of un- 
godly men. But, beloved, be not tgnorant of this 
one thing, that one day 1s with the Lord as a thou- 
sand years, and a thousand years as one day.’— 
LE Berens 3 si Aas. 


“From first to last the supposed co- 
existence of Mind and matter and the min- 
gling of good and evil have resulted from the 
philosophy of the serpent. Jesus’ demon- 
strations sift the chaff from the wheat, and 
unfold the unity and the reality of good, the 


unreality, the nothingness, of evil."—S. & 
H. 269: 3-8. 


God would not have mentioned the tree of the 
knowledge of good and evil had not both existed in 
reality, nor would “nothingness” be capable of 
Sitting.” 


“But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, 
thou shalt not eat of st: for in the day that thou 
eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.’—GEnN. 2: 17. 


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Mind is a part of man, so defined by Jesus Christ. 
Mind of man is co-existent with his other parts 
of being. 


“Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy 
God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and 
with all thy mind.’—Marr, 22: 37, 


“Tn Latin the word rendered disciple sig- 
nifies student; and the word indicates that 


the power of healing was not a supernatural 
gift to those learners.”—S. & H, 271: 11-13. 


Contrary to the statement given above, Scripture 
states that the power of healing was given “ by the 
spirit to some.” 


“To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the 
gifts of healing by the same Spirit.”—I Cor. 12:9, 


“As God Himself is good and is Spirit, 
goodness and spirituality must be immortal. 
These opposites, evil and matter, are mortal 
error, and error has no creator.”—S. & H. 
277: 7-10. 

“ Spirit and matter can neither coexist nor 
co-operate, and one can no more create the 
other than Truth can create error, or vice 


versa.’—S, & H. 279: 13-15. 


It is not consistent with reason to assume that 
anything mortal did not at some time in its earthly 
existence have a creation. Evil had a creator. 


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Scripture has a wonderful future for mortal bodies. 
God dwells with men. 


“But tf the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from 
the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from 
the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by 
his Spirit that dwelleth in you.’—Rom. 8:11. 

“T form the light and create darkness: I make peace, 
and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.’— 
Isatau 45:7, 


“Ts God’s image or likeness matter, or a 
mortal, sin, sickness, and death? Can mat- 
ter recognise Mind? Can infinite Mind 
recognise matter? ”’—S, & H. 284: 11-13. 


Created man was not the same as the man Jesus 
Christ, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost. 
Scripture recites the recognising of matter by God, 
the infinite. 


“ And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon 
Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, 
and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the 
rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made 
he a woman, and brought her unto the man.’— 
GEN-21 21, 22. . 

“But the natural man receweth not the things of the 
Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: 
neither can he know them, because they are spirit- 
ually discerned.’—I Cor. 2: 14. 


It is mentioned of Jesus Christ that He is the ex- 
press image of the person of God. 


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“Who being the brightness of his glory, and the ex- 
press wmage of his person, and upholding all things 
by the word of hts power, when he had by himself 
purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the 
Majesty on high.’—Hes. 1: 3. 


“Ts God a physical personality? Spirit is 
not physical. The belief that a material body 
is man is a false conception of man,”—S, & 


F209 tho. 


Yes, God is a physical personality in Jesus 
Christ, as we have shown from Scripture. 


“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, 
(and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only 
begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.’— 
Joun 1:14, 


The material body is a part of man. It would be 
difficult to find any person who would claim that 
the material body was all of man. 


“* Doth a fountain send forth at the same 
place sweet water and bitter?’ God being 
everywhere and all-inclusive, how can He 
be absent or suggest the absence of omni- 
presence and omnipotence? How can there 
be more than all?’’—S. & H. 287: 12-16. 


“TI am the Lord, and there is none else, there ts no 
God besides me: I girded thee, though thou hast not 
known me; that they may know from the rising of 
the sun, and from the west, that there ts none be- 


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sides me, I am the Lord, and there is none else. 
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, 
and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.’— 
IsarAu 45: 5, 6, 7. 


Omnipotence is conclusive—the creator of all. 
Scripture mentions error as an evil, and that it 
is seen. 


“ There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as 
an error which proceedeth from the ruler.’— 


Recon LOD. 


“Man is not the offspring of flesh, but of 
Spirit,—of Life, not of matter. Because 
Life is God, Life must be eternal, self- 
existent.”—S. & H. 289: 31-32. 


This statement is contrary to the Scripture in John. 


“ Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Ex- 
cept a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he 
cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which 
is born of the flesh is flesh; and that whitch is born 
of the spirit 1s spirit. Marvel not that I sasd unto 
thee, Ye must be born again.’—Joun 3:5, 6, 7. 


“They who are unrighteous shall be un- 
righteous still, until in divine Science Christ, 


Truth, removes all ignorance and sin.”— 
Sade 20-22, 


If the quotation is intended to be from Revelation, 
chapter 22, it is not given correctly. 


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“ He that is unjust, let him be unjust stil: and he 
which ts filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that ts 
righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that 1s 
holy, let him be holy still.’—Rey. 22:11. 


This verse follows one that directs that “the say- 
ings of the prophecy be not sealed.” 

There is then given the statement regarding 
’ those who are “ unjust’ and “ filthy,” also of those 
who are “righteous” and “holy.” It is evident 
from the Scripture that there is a continuing of 
these attributes in each case, and no Scripture 
authority there for the statement “ until Christian 
Science, Truth, removes all ignorance and sin.” 


“ Universal salvation rests on progression 
and probation, and is unattainable without 
them. Heaven is not a locality, but a divine 
state of Mind in which all the manifesta- 
tions of Mind are harmonious and immortal, 
because sin is not there and man is found 
having no righteousness of his own, but in 
possession of ‘the mind of the Lord,’ as the 
Scripture says.”’—S. & H. 291: 12-18. 


Heaven is a place, and God is there, according to 
Scripture. 


“Tet not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, 
believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many 
manstons: tf it were not so, I would have told you. 
I go to prepare a place for you.’—Joun 14:1, 2. 

“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ 


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Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought tt 
not robbery to be equal with God.”—Puit, 2:5, 6. 

“Tf ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things 
which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right 
hand of God.’—Cor, 3:1. 


“No final judgment awaits mortals, for 
the judgment-day of wisdom comes hourly 
and continually, even the judgment by which 
mortal man is divested of all material error. 
As for spiritual error there is none.”—S. & 
H. 291 : 28-32. 


There will be a judgment of all men, but, according 
to Scripture, no condemnation for those who are in 
Christ Jesus. 


“Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for 
the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of 
judgment, than for that city.’—Marr. 10:15. 

“But I say unto you, That every idle word that men 
shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the 
day of judgment.’—Marvt. 12: 36, 

“And as it 1s appointed unto men once to die, but 
after thts the judgment: so Christ was once offered 
to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look 
for him shall he appear the second time without sin 
unto salvation:’—He_p. 9:27, 28. 

“But, after thy hardness and impenstent heart, trea- 
surest up unto thyself wrath against the day of 
wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of 
God.’—Rom. 2:5. 

“There is therefore now no condemnation to them 
which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the 
flesh, but after the Spirit;’—Rom. 8:1. 


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“ And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with 
me, to give every man according as his work shall 
be.” —ReEv. 22: 12. 


“Explaining the origin of material man 
and mortal mind, Jesus said: ‘Why do ye 
not understand my speech? Ejven because 
ye cannot hear my word. Ye are of your 
father, the devil (evil), and the lusts of your 
father ye will do. He was a murderer from 
the beginning, and abode not in the truth, be- 
cause there is no truth in him. When he 
speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for 
he is a liar, and the father of it.’’”—S. & H. 
292 : 19-26. 


Neither Jesus nor John would have called “evil ”’ 
66 he.”’ 


“Ve are of your father the devil, and the lusts of 
your father ye will do: he was a murderer from 
the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because 
there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a le, 
he speaketh of his own: for he ts a liar, and the 
father of wt.’—Joun 8: 44, 


Jesus saw Satan fall from heaven. 


“ And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning 
fall from heaven.’—LwxeE 10: 18. 


Material man and mortal mind were created 


by God. 


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“And God said, Let us make man in our smage, 
after our likeness: and let them have dominion over 
the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and 
over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over 
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” 
—GEN. 1: 26, 


There is a second man—Christ Jesus. 


“ The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man 
is the Lord from heaven.”—I Cor. 15:47, 


God honoured the first man created by giving him 
the privilege of being joined to the second man, 
Christ Jesus, by being born again. 


“ Among whom also we all had our conversation 
times, past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the 
desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by 
nature the children of wrath, even as others. But 
God, who 1s rich in mercy, for hts great love where- 
with he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, 
hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace 
ye are saved); . .. For he is our peace, who hath 
made both one, and hath broken down the middle 
wall of partition between us; having abolished in 
his flesh the enmity, even the law of command- 
ments contained in ordinances; for to make m 
himself of twain one new man, so making peace.” 
-HpH. 2: 3-5, 14, 15. 

“ Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I 
say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he can- 
not see the kingdom of God.’—JouN 3:3. 


“The belief that pain and pleasure, life 


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and death, holiness and unholiness, mingle in 
man,—that mortal, material man is the like- 
ness of God and is himself a creator,—is a 
fatal error. 

“God, without the image and likeness of 
Himself, would be a nonenity, or Mind un- 
expressed. He would be without a witness 
or proof of His own nature. Spiritual man 
is the image or idea of God.”—S. & H. 
303 : 21-27. 


When God said, ‘‘ Let us make man in our image 
after our likeness,’ He created man. The whole 
man was in His image and after His likeness. 


“ And God said, Let us make man wm our wmage, after 
our likeness: and let them have dominion over the 
fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the ar, and 
over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over 
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 
So God created man in his own wmage, sn the image 
of God created he him; male and female created he 
them.” —GEN. 1:26, 27, 


Pain, pleasure, life, death, holiness, all mingled in 
Jesus Christ the Son of God,—the Son of man. 
Man was made in the image of God. 


“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was 
with God, and the Word was God. The same was 
én the beginning with God. All things were made 
by him; and without him was not anything made 
that was made. ... Which were born, not of 
blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will 


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of man, but of God. And the Word was made 
flesh and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, 
the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) 
full of grace and truth.’-—Joun 1:1-3, 13, 14. 

“For we have not a high priest which cannot be 
touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was 
én all points tempted lke as we are, yet without 
sin.” —Hes. 4:15. 


The lilies of the field without the lines of beauty 
painted by their Creator, would not have exceeded 
all the glorious array of Solomon. A rose without 
a rich gift of perfume with which it is endowed by 
its Maker, does not appeal to our senses as it does 
with it. To bring to our minds the being of our 
Saviour, as the Holy Spirit gives us in Scripture, 
we must not break the word by separating His 
person, “‘ God is One.” 


“As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that 
he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast 
given him... . And now, O Father, glorify thou 
me with thine own self with the glory whtch I had 
with thee before the world was.’—JOHuN 17:2, 5. 

“T am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the val- 
leys.’—SONG OF SOLOMON 2:1, 


“Jacob was alone, wrestling with error,— 
struggling with a mortal sense of life, sub- 
stance, and intelligence as existent in matter 
with its false pleasures and pains,—when an 
angel, a message from Truth and Love, ap- 
peared to him and smote the sinew, or 


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strength, of his error, till he saw its un- 
reality; and Truth, being thereby under- 
stood, gave him spiritual strength in this 
Peniel of divine Science. ‘Then said the 
spiritual evangel: ‘Let me go, for the day 
breaketh;’ that is, the Light of Truth and 
Love dawns upon thee. But the patriarch, 
perceiving his error and his need of help, 
did not loosen his hold upon this glorious 
light until his nature was transformed. 
When Jacob was asked, ‘What is thy 
name?’ he straightway answered; and then 
his name was changed to Israel, for ‘as a 
prince’ had he prevailed and had ‘ power 
with God and with men.’ Then Jacob ques- 
tioned his deliverer, ‘Tell me, I pray thee, 
thy name;’ but this appellation was withheld, 
for the messenger was not a corporeal being, 
but a nameless, incorporeal impartation of 
divine Love to man, which, to use the word 
of the Psalmist, restored his Soul,—gave 
him the spiritual sense of being and rebuked 
his material sense.”—S. & H. 308-9: 16-6. 


It was not a messenger who came to Jacob, but 
the Lord Himself, a man,—the visible form of 
Christ before His incarnation. It was not with 
error Jacob wrestled, but with God, with whom he 
had power, and with men. 


“ And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man 
with him until the breaking of the day... . And 
he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, 
but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with 


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God and with men, and hast prevailed. And Jacob 
asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. 
And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask 
after my name? And he blessed him there. And 
Jacob called the name of the place Pemel: for I 
have seen God face to face, and my life ts pre- 
served.’—GEN. 32:24, 28, 29, 30. 

“The Lord hath also a controversy with Judah, and 
will punish Jacob according to his ways; according 
to his doings will he recompense him. He took his 
brother by the hecl in the womb, and by lus strength 
he had power with God: Yea, he had power over 
the angel, and prevailed: he wept and made suppls- 
cation unto him: he found him in Beth-el and there 
he spake with us; Even the Lord God of hosts; the 
Lord is his memorial.”—Hoska 12: 2-5, 


‘ Soul changeth not. We are commonly 
taught that there is a human soul which sins 
and is spiritually lost,—that soul may be lost, 
and yet be immortal. If Soul could sin, 
Spirit, Soul, would be flesh instead of Spirit. 
It is the belief of the flesh and material sense 
which sins. If Soul sinned, Soul would die. 
Sin is the element of self-destruction, and 
spiritual death is oblivion. If there was sin 
in Soul, the annihilation of Spirit would be 
inevitable. The only Life is Spirit, and if 
Spirit should lose Life as God, good, then 
Spirit, which has no other existence, would 
be annihilated.”—-S, & H. 310: 18-28. 


Here is Scripture refuting such a theory. 


“The word of the Lord came unto me again, say- 


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ing, ... Behold, All souls are mine; as the soul 
of the father, so also the soul of the son ts mine: 
the soul that sinneth, it shall die?’—EzeK1E1, 
18:1, 4. 

“ Now set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord 
your God: arise therefore, and build ye the sanctu- 
ary of the Lord God, to bring the ark of the cove- 
nant of the Lord, and the holy vessels of God, into 
the house that 1s to be built to the name of the 
Lord.’—I Curon, 22:19. 


“Your soul” is here mentioned as needing a 
change “ to be set” to seek the Lord. 


“And it shall come to pass, tf ye shall hearken dili- 
gently unto my commandments which I command 
you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to 
serve him with all your heart and with all your 
soul.”—Deuvt. 11:13. 


This is what souls in Israel were directed to do. 


“Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your 
soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting cove- 
nant with you, even the sure mercies of David,’— 
ISAIAH 55: 3. 


Here Isaiah points the way a soul may live. Soul 
is changeable. God is unchangeable in His pur- 
poses of the covenant. 


“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the 
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of 
life; and man became a living soul.’—GEN. 2:7. 


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“Man became a living soul”; not God nor Spirit, 
but man—God’s creation. 


“Wearing in part a human form (that 
is, as it seemed to mortal view), being 
conceived by a human mother, Jesus was 
the mediator between Spirit and the flesh, 
between Truth and Error.”—S. & H. 
315 : 29-32. 


Jesus was not conceived by a human mother ac- 
cording to Scripture, but by the Holy Ghost, one 
of the Godhead. 


“But while he thought on these things, behold the 
angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, 
saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take 
unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is con- 
ceived in her 1s of the Holy Ghost. . . . Behold, a 
virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth 
a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, 
which being interpreted is, God with us”’—Matr. 
Pea 3, 


Thus being one of the Godhead, Jesus became a 
mediator because He was both man, born of Mary, 
and the only begotten Son of God, conceived by 
the Holy Ghost. 


“Man’s wisdom finds no satisfaction in 
sin, since God has sentenced sin to suffer. 
The necromancy of yesterday foreshadowed 
the mesmerism and hypnotism of today.”— 


S. & H. 322: 14-17. 


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If, according to S. & H., sin is unreal, how can 
sin suffer ? 


“The true idea of God gives the true un- 
derstanding of Life and Love, robs the grave 
of victory, takes away all sin and the delu- 
sion that there are other minds, and destroys 
mortality.”"—S. & H. 323 :24-27. 


Belief in God is more than a true idea. It is being 
born again; receiving the Holy Ghost, whereby we 
call God, Father. 


“ All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and 
no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither 
knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he 
to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. Come unto 
me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I 
will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and 
learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: 
and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my 
yoke ts easy, and my burden ts light?’—Mart. 
11: 27-30. 

“ But as many as recewwed him, to them gave he power 
to become the sons of God, even to them that be- 
lieve on his name.’—JOuN 1: 12, 


“A little leaven leavens the whole lump. 
A little understanding of Christian Science 
proves the truth of all that I say of it. Be- 
cause you cannot walk on the water and 
raise the dead, you have no right to question 
the great might of divine Science in these 
directions, Be thankful that Jesus, who was 


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the true demonstrator of Science, did these 
things, and left His example for us. In 
Science we can use only what we under- 
stand. We must prove our faith by 
demonstration. 

“One should not tarry in the storm if the 
body is freezing, nor should he remain in the 
devouring flames. Until one is able to pre- 
vent bad results, he should avoid their occa- 
sion. ‘To be discouraged, is to resemble a 
pupil in addition, who attempts to solve a 
problem of Euclid, and denies the rule of 
the problem because he fails in his first 
effort.”—S. & H. 329: 5-20. 


But when did Divine Science, so-called, ever 
walk on the water, or raise the dead? ’Tis true, 
Jesus Christ did, but Scripture shows the Gospel 
of Jesus Christ to be entirely at variance with so- 
called “ Divine Science”; and, then, we are in- 
structed in Scripture not to lean to our own 
understanding. 


“ Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not 
unto thine own understanding.”—Prov. 3:5. 


To perform miracles is the gift of God, and is not 
a problem solved by man’s understanding, but is 
the work of the Holy Spirit. 


“For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wis- 
dom, to another the word of knowledge by the same 
Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit; to an- 


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other the gifts of healing by the same S‘pirit; to 
another the working of miracles; to another proph- 
ecy; to another discerning of spwrits; to another 
divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpreta- 
tion of tongues: but all these worketh that one and 
the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally 
as he will.’—I Cor. 12: 8-11. 


“When the following platform is under- 
stood and the letter and the spirit bear wit- 
ness, the infallibility of divine metaphysics 
will be demonstrated.” 

“God is infinite, the only Life, substance, 
Spirit, or Soul, the only intelligence of the 
universe, including man. Eye hath neither 
seen God nor His image and _ likeness. 
Neither God nor the perfect man can be dis- 
cerned by the material senses. The individ- 
uality of Spirit, or the infinite, is unknown, 
and thus a knowledge of it is left either to 
human conjecture or to the revelation of 
divine Science.”—S. & H. 330: 1. 


Man has seen God’s likeness. 


“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among 


us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the 
only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and 
truth.’—Joun 1: 14. 


. . . Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his 


Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by 
whom also he made the worlds; who being the 
brightness of his glory, and the express image of 
his person, and upholding all things by the word of 
his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, 


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sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on 
hsgh.’—Hes. 1: 2, 3. 


Is it true that there is only one Spirit? Scripture 
contradicts the theory. 


“Tf ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts 
unto your children; how much more shall your 
heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that 
ask him?”—Lox¥ 11: 13. 

“ Tet the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set 
a man over the congregation.’—Nuvm., 27: 16. 


There is the life of the first man, Adam. There is 
also the eternal life given by the second man, Jesus 
Christ. 

There is, therefore, the life created by God and the 
eternal life which is by faith in Jesus Christ,—the 
being born again. 


“ And so it 1s written, the first man Adam, was made 
a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening 
spirtt. Howbeit that was not first which ts spi- 
tual, but that which is natural; and afterward that 
which is spiritual,’—I Cor. 15:45, 46. 


Is God the only Soul? 


“When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel 
after their number, then shall they give every man 
a ransom for his soul unto the Lord, when thou 
numberest them; that there be no plague among 


them, when thou numberest them.’—Exopus 
BOLE: | 


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Scripture that tells who God is. 


“ The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are 
the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the 
enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy 
them.’—Deuvt. 33:27. 

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was 
with God, and the Word was God. ... And the 
Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and 
we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begot- 
ten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.’— 
Joun 1:1, 14. 

“God is a Spirst: and they that worship him must 
worship him in spirit and in truth.’—Joun 4: 24. 

“ For st became him, for whom are all things, and by 
whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto 
glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect 
through sufferings. For both he that sanctifieth 
and they who are sanctéfied, are all of one: for 
which cause he 1s not ashamed to call them breth- 
en.’ —Hes. 2:10, 11. 


“God is what the Scriptures declare Him 
to be,-—Life, Truth, Love. Spirit is divine 
Principle, and divine Principle is Love, and 
Love is Mind, and Mind is not both good 
and bad, for God is Mind; therefore, there 
is in reality one Mind only, because there is 
one God.”—S, & H. 330: II 


Scripture is very plain in every description given 
of God, yet we fail to find “ Mind ” as one of His 
names. 


Is it true that there is only one mind? Is God 


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mentioned anywhere in Scripture as principle or 
soul? God is a spirit. The spirit man has a mind, 
a soul, but God is the Creator of all man’s parts, 
none of which could be God. Man could not be his 
own creator. Cruden defines mind as the judg- 
ment whereby we distinguish between good and 
evil. The mind of God is past finding out. 


“For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he 


may mstruct him? But we have the mnd of 
Christ.’—I Cor. 2: 16. 


There is, then, according to Scripture, both the 
mind of the Father and the mind of the Son, Christ 
Jesus, who reveals the Father with the holy spirit. 
Paul acknowledged a mind that is man’s, as well as 
a mind that is God’s. 


“ For I delight in the law of God after the inward 
man.’—Rom, 7: 22. 

* Now as James and Jambres withstood Moses, so 
do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, 
reprobate concerning the faith.’—II Tim. 3:8. 


“The notion that both evil and good are 
real is a delusion of material sense, which 
Science annihilates. Evil is nothing, no 
thing, mind, nor power. As manifesting by 
mankind it stands for a lie, nothing claiming 
to be something,—for lust, dishonesty, self- 
ishness, envy, hypocrisy, slander, hate, theft, 
adultery, murder, dementia, insanity, inan- 


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ity, devil, hell, with all the etceteras that 
word includes.”—S. & H. 330: III. 


Ask the mother, who has watched her loved son 
or daughter fall into these snares of Satan in oppo- 
sition to her teachings, if those evils enumerated 
are nothing? Scripture makes them real. 

Do not our sound minds and sense instruct that 
~ “nothing” is beyond being annihilated? Evil may 
be overcome with good. That truth makes of evil 
something to be overcome. 


“Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with 
good.’—Rom. 12:21. 


“God is divine Life, and Life is no more 
confined to the forms which reflect it than 
substance is in its shadow. If life were in 
mortal man or material things, it would be 
subject to their limitations and would end 
in death. Life is Mind, the creator reflected 
in His creations. If He dwelt within what 
He creates, God would not be reflected but 
absorbed, and the Science of being would be 
forever lost through a mortal sense, which 
falsely testifies to a beginning and an end.” 


—S. & H. 330: 1V. 


Instead of death being produced by God dwelling 
in His created being, man, Scripture records di- 
rectly to the contrary. 


“ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that 
the spirit of God dwelleth in you? ”—I Cor. 3: 16. 


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By the indwelling of God we become His own 
and belong to Him, Who is eternal life. 


“ Brethren, let every man, wherein he ss called, therein 
abide with God.’—I Cor. 7: 24. 

“T pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for 
them which thou hast given me; for they are thine; 
and all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am 
glorified in them.”’—JouN 17:9, 10. 


“ The Scriptures imply that God is All-in- 
all. From this it follows that nothing pos- 
sesses reality nor existence except the divine 
Mind and His ideas. The Scriptures also 
declare that God is Spirit. Therefore in 
epirit all is harmony, and there can be no 
discord; all is Life, and there is no death. 
Everything in God’s universe expresses 


Him eS Hess gies 


But man is a very important figure, according to 
Scripture. 


“Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and 
princes shall rule in judgment. And a man shall 
be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert 
from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, 


as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.’— 
IsataAH 32:1, 2. 


God rules over man and He saves men. 


“For the Lord ts our judge, the Lord is our law- 
giver, the Lord 1s our King; he will save us.’— 
IsatAH 33: 22. 


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The Lord speaks in Scripture and shows not that 
he is Mind, but that he has a mind. He calls it my 
mind. God is a person. 


“Then said the Lord unto me, though Moses and 
Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be 
toward thts people: cast them out of my sight, and 
let them go forth.’—Jer. 15:1. 


Scripture does not instruct us to love mind, or soul, 
as the first and greatest command. It presents the 
Person of the Lord our God as the One to whom 
we are to give our supreme love. 


“Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy 
God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and 
with all thy mind. This is the first and great com- 
mandment. And the second 1s like unto it, Thou 
shalt love thy neighbour as thyself?’—Mar. 
Vie GS Sep 


All is not harmony. Nowhere in Scripture is such 
a statement found. All things work together for 
good to those who love God. But there is much 
that is far from harmony in the experience of 
God’s devoted followers. 


“ Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I 
came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am 
come to set a man at variance against his father, 
and the daughter against her mother, and the 
daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a 


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man’s foes shall be they of hss own household.”— 
Marr. 10: 34-36. 


In Christ Jesus, who is the express image of God’s 
person, there is no evil. 


“Who being the brightness of Mis glory, and the 
express wmage of his person, and upholding all 
things by the word of his power, when he had by 
himself purged our sins, sat down on the right 
hand of the Majesty on high.’—HeEs. 1: 3. 


“God is individual, incorporeal. He is 
divine Principle, Love, the universal cause, 
the only creator, and there is no other self- 
existence. He is all-inclusive, and is re- 
flected by all that is real and eternal and by 
nothing else. He fills all space, and it 1s im- 
possible to conceive of such ommnipresence 
and individuality except as infinite Spirit or 
Mind. Hence all is Spirit and spiritual.’”’— 
PI gs Lice Via 


God is one in three persons, Father, Son and Holy 
Ghost. 


“And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, Ali 
power 1s given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go 
ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptising them 
in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of 
the Holy Ghost.’-—Mart, 28: 18, 19. 

“For there are three that bear record in heaven, the 
Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these 
three are one. And there are three that bear wit- 


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ness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the 
blood: and these three agree m one.’—I Joun 
Se tee 


God is not incorporeal. He may come to earth in 

any form He selects. He came as a man, Jesus 

Christ, and He also came as the Holy Spirit in the 

form of a dove. 

“And the Holy Ghost descended m a bodily shape 
like a dove upon him, and a voice came from 
heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in 
thee I am well pleased.’—Lwuks 3: 22, 


“Life, Truth, and Love constitute the tri- 
une Person called God,—that is, the triply 
divine Principle, Love. They represent a 
trinity in unity, three in one,—the same in 
essence, though multiform in office: God the 
Father-Mother ; Christ the spiritual idea of 
sonship; divine Science or the Holy Com- 
forter. These three express in divine 
Science the threefold, essential nature of the 
infinite. They also indicate the divine Prin- 
ciple of scientific being, the intelligent. rela- 
tion of God to man and the universe.”— 
eC OA Sa 


Here is a wrong interpretation of Scripture. ‘The 
Three-in-One is plainly stated in John’s first Letter. 


“ For there are three that bear record in heaven, the 
Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost; and these 
three are one.’—I JOHN 5:7. 

“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us 


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(and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only 
begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”— 
Joun 1:14. 


“ Father-Mother is the name for Deity, 
which indicates His tender relationship to 
His spiritual creation. As the apostle ex- 
pressed it in words which he quoted with 
approbation from a classic poet : ‘ For we are 
also His offspring.’ ”’—S. & H. 332: VIII. 


Nowhere in Scripture is the Deity called 
“ Father-Mother.” ‘Our Father. who art in 
heaven’ is a name of Deity. Jesus Christ, the - 
only begotten Son of God, the express image of 
His Father’s Person, is the one spiritual relation 
to creation—John 1: 3. 


“ Howbeit that was not first which ts spsritual, but 
that which is natural; and afterward that which ts 
spiritual. The first man ts of the earth, earthy, the 
second man is the Lord from heaven.’—I1 Cor. 
15: 46, 47. 


“Jesus was born of Mary. Christ is the 
true idea voicing good, the divine message 
from God to men speaking to the human 
consciousness. ‘lhe Christ is incorporeal, 
spiritual, yea, the divine image and likeness, 
dispelling the illusions of the senses; the 
Way, the Truth, and the Life, healing the 
sick and casting out devils, destroying sin, 
disease, and death. As Paul says: ‘ There 
is one God, and one mediator between God 


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and men, the man Jesus Christ.’ The cor- 
poreal man Jesus was human.’—S. & H. . 
aA 


Jesus Christ, born of Mary by the Holy Ghost, 
was very God and very man; thus He is the medi- 
ator between God and man. 


“ Now a mediator is not a medsator of one, but God 
is one.’ —Gat, 3:20, 


To be an all-effective mediator, neither Jesus, the 
man alone, nor God, without man, is the mediator, 
but the God-Man is the mediator. ‘The Word made 
flesh—Christ Jesus our high priest. 


“For there is one God, and one mediator between 
God and men, the man Jesus Christ; who gave 
himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due 
time.’—I Timotuy 2:5, 6. 

“ But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, 
by how much also he is the mediator of a better 
covenant, which. was established upon better prom- 
ises.’—Hes. 8: 6. 


There was a child born of Mary. He was the Son 
given of God. 


“ For unto us a child is born, unto us a son és given: 
and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and 
his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the 
mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of 
Peace.” —IsalauH 9: 6. 


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“ And, behold, thou shalt concewe m thy womb, and 
bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus. 
He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the 
Highest; and the Lord God shall give unto him the 
throne of his father David.’”—LuKE 1: 31, 32. 


Thus the body that lay in the tomb of Joseph until 
the third day when He arose, was the body of the 
mediator between God and man. 


“When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he 
said, It 1s finished: and he bowed his head, and gave 
up the ghost. ... But when they came to Jesus, 
and saw that he was dead already, they brake not 
his legs.’—Joun 19: 30, 33. 

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth my 
word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath ever- 
lasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; 
but ts passed from death unto life. Verily, verily, 
I say unto you, The hour is coming and now 4s, 
when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son 
of God: and they that hear shall lve,’—Joun 
Site: AG 

“And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as 
he went up, behold, two men stood by them m 
white apparel; Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, 
why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same 
Jesus, which ts taken up from you into heaven, 
shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him 
go into heaven.”—Acts 1:10, 11. 


“Jesus demonstrated Christ; He proved 
that Christ is the divine idea of God—the 
Holy Ghost, or Comforter, revealing the 


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divine Principle, Love, and leading into all 
truth.”—S. & H. 332: X. 


Jesus is Christ, according to Scripture. 


“ He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? 
And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the 
Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus an- 
swered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon 
Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed tt 
unto thee, but my Father which ts in heaven.”— 
Marr, 16: 15-17, 


“ Jesus was the son of a virgin. He was 
appointed to speak God’s word and to appear 
to mortals in such a form of humanity as 
they could understand as well as perceive. 
Mary’s conception of Him was spiritual, for 
only purity could reflect Truth and Love, 
which were plainly incarnate in the good and 
pure Christ Jesus. He expressed the highest 
type of divinity, which a fleshly form could 
express in that age. Into the real and ideal 
man the fleshly element cannot enter. Thus 
it is that Christ illustrates the coincidence or 
spiritual agreement, between God and man in 


His image.”—S. & H. 332: XI. 


Jesus was, according to Scripture, the Son of 
God. He was born of Mary by the Holy Ghost. 


“And the angel answered and said unto her, The 
Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power 
of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore 


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also that holy thing which shall be born of thee 
shall be called the Son of God.”—Luxe 1: 35. 


“The word Christ is not properly a, syno- 
nym for Jesus, though it is commonly so 
- used. Jesus was a human name, which be- 
longed to Him in common with other He- 
brew boys and men, for it is identical with 
the name of Joshua, the renowned Hebrew 
leader. On the other hand, Christ is not a 
name so much as the divine title of Jesus. 
Christ expresses God’s spiritual, eternal 
nature. The name is synonymous with Mes- 
siah, and alludes to the spirituality which is 
taught, illustrated, and demonstrated in the 
life of which Christ Jesus was the embodi- 
ment. The proper name of our Master in 
the Greek was Jesus the Christ; but Christ 
Jesus better signifies the Godlike.’—S. & 
TOS aew LL, 


The name “ Christ’? means the anointed of God, 
and is one with the Hebrew word “ Messiah,” ac- 
cording to Scripture, translated by Cruden. 


“ Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: 
therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee wsth the 
oil of gladness above thy fellows.”—PsauM 45:7. 

“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the 
Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto 
the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken- 
hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the 
opening of the prison to them that are bound.”— 
Isatau 61:1, 


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The name is also as truly suitable for the Son of 
God as “ Our Father in heaven” is for God; bear- 
ing the form “ made flesh,” the Almighty, the Cre- 
ator of man. Jesus Christ was Emmanuel, “ God 
with us.” 


“And be found in him, not having mine own right- 
eousness, which ts of the law, but that which ts 
through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which 
1s of God by faith,’—Puit, 3:9. 

“But these are written, that ye might believe that 
Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God: and that be- 
lieving ye might have life through his name.’— 
Joun 20: 31. 


“The advent of Jesus of Nazareth marked 
the first century of the Christian era, but the 
Christ is without beginning of years or end 
of days. Throughout all generations, both 
before and after the Christian era, the 
Christ, as the spiritual idea,—the reflection 
of God,—has come with some measure of 
power and grace to all prepared to receive 
Christ, Truth. Abraham, Jacob, Moses, and 
the prophets caught glorious glimpses of the 
Messiah, or Christ, which baptised these 
seers in the divine nature, the essence of © 
Love. The divine image, idea, or Christ 
was, is, and ever will be inseparable from 
the divine Principle, God. Jesus referred to 
this unity of His spiritual identity thus: 
‘Before Abraham was, I am’; ‘I and my 
Father are one’; ‘ My Father is greater than 
I. The one Spirit includes all identities.”— 
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This attempt to show the person of Jesus and 
that of Christ as separate is a direct contradiction 
of Scripture as shown in the review just given of 
XII of the S. & H. platform, and will show further 
in this review of XIII of the platform by the Word 
of God. 


“ And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call 
his name Jesus: for he shall save his peple from 
thew sins. . . . Behold, a virgin shall be with child, 
and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call hts 
name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God 
with us.’-—Marr. 1:21, 23. 


Could anyone but God save from sin, to whom 
salvation belongs? 


“Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh 
my salvation. He only 1s my rock and my salva- 
tion; he is my defense; I shall not be greatly 
moved.’—PsaumM 62:1, 2. 


Jesus was the Christ. 
“Then charged he his disciples that they should tell 
no man that he .was Jesus the Christ.’—Marr. 


10320: 


The testimony of the Father is here given of the 
Son of God, who was also the Son of man. 


“And whoso shall recewe one such little child in my 
name receweth me... . Wherefore if thy hand or 


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thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them 
from thee: it 1s better for thee to enter tnto life 
halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or 
two feet to be cast into everlasting fire. And if 
thine eye offend thee, pluck st out, and cast 1t from 
thee: it 1s better for thee to enter into life with one 
eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast tnto hell 

fire.’-—Martr. 18:5, 8, 9. 

_ “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son ts given: 
and the government shall be upon lus shoulder: and 
his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, 
the mighty God, The everlasting Father, the Prince 
of Peace.’—IsaIAu 9: 6, 

“For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to ob- 
tain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died 
for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should 
live together with him.’—I Tuess. 5:9, 10. 


Jesus Christ was the beginning of all creation, the 
Alpha and Omega; the Almighty. 


“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave 
unto him, to shew unto his servants things which 
must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signi- 
fied it by his angel unto is servant John: ...1 
am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end- 
ing, sasth the Lord, which is, and which was, and 
which is to come, the Almighty.’—Rev. 1:1, 8. 


Jesus did not come with a “measure of power.” 
The Father gave to Him without measure. 


“ He that cometh from above is above all: he that is 
of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: 


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he that cometh from heaven ts above all. . . . For 
he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: 
for God gweth not the spirit by measure unto him. 
The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all 
things into his hand. He that belteveth on the Son 
hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the 
Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth 
on him.’—Joun 3:31, 34-35. 


“ By these sayings Jesus meant, not that 
the human Jesus was or is eternal, but that 
the divine idea or Christ was and is so, and 
therefore antedated Abraham; not that the 
corporeal Jesus was one with the Father, but 
that the spiritual idea, Christ, dwells forever 
in the bosom of the Father, God, from which 
it illumines heaven and earth; not that the 
Father was greater than Spirit, which is 
God, but greater, infinitely greater, than the 
fleshly Jesus, whose earthly career was 
brief.”—S. & H. 334: XIV. 


According to Scripture, severa? vital mistakes are 
found in the above attempt to interpret the sayings 
of Jesus. The human Jesus is eternal. 


“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was 
with God, and the Word was God... . And the 
Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and 
we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begot- 
ten of the Father,) full of grace and truth,’— 
JOHN 1:1, 14. 


The following explanation of “ Word”’ is given 


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by Cruden: “In Hebrew ‘Dubar,’ in Greek 
‘Rhema,’ or ‘ Logos,’ it signifies first the eternal 
son of God, the uncreated wisdom, the second per- 
son of the most Holy Trinity; equal and consub- 
stantial with the Father.’ The Scripture from 
John corroborates the definition given by Cruden. 

In Hebrews, Paul quotes several prophecies from 
_ the Old Testament in which the Son of God, Jesus, 
to whom Mary gave birth and who was named by 
the angel, the Son of God, is shown to be the only 
begotten Son of the Father, the Anointed. The 
name given to the Son of God, who was born of 
Mary, is “ Jesus Christ.” 


“Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: 
When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, 
before they came together, she was found with 
child of the Holy Ghost... . And she shall bring 
forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus: for 
he shall save his people from their sins. Now all 
this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was 
spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,’— 
WATT AL WIS 2b 22. 

“But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, ts 
forever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness ts the 
sceptre of thy kingdom. Thou hast loved right- 
eousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even 
thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of glad- 
ness above thy fellows. And, Thou, Lord, in the 
beginning hast laid the foundatson of the earth; and 
the heavens are the works of thine hands. They 
perish, but thou remainest: and they all shall wax 
old as doth a garment.”—Hes, 1: 8-11. 


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Jesus Christ is all that the Scripture in “ Hebrews ”’ 
claims Him to be, and He is eternal. 

Cruden states, “The word ‘Memra,’ which 
signifies ‘the Word,’ was used by the Chaldie 
Paraphiasts—the most ancient Jewish writers ex- 
tant, in those places where Moses puts the name 
Jehovah.” 


“ Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think ye have 
eternal life: and they are they which testsfy of me.” 
—Joun 5:39, 


“The invisible Christ was imperceptible to 
the so-called personal senses, whereas Jesus 
appeared as a bodily existence. This dual 
personality of the unseen and the seen, the 
spiritual and material, the eternal Christ and 
the corporeal Jesus manifest in flesh, contin- 
ued until the Master’s ascension, when the 
human, material concept, or Jesus, disap- 
peared, while the spiritual self, or Christ, 
continues to exist in the eternal order of 
divine Science, taking away the sins of the 
world, as the Christ has always done, even 
before the human Jesus was incarnate to 
mortal eyes.”—S. & H. 334: XV. 


This is wholly contradicted by Jesus. 


“If ye had known me, ye should have known my 
Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, 
and have seen him. Philip saith unto him, Lord, 
shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith 
unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and 


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yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath 
seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou 
then, Shew us the Father?”—Joun 14:7, 8, 9. 

“ And so it ts written, The first man Adam, was made 
a living soul; the last Adam was made a quicken- 
ing spirit.”—I Cor. 15:45. 

“ He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? 
And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the 
Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus an- 
swered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon 
Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed tt 
unto thee, but my Father which ts m heaven.’— 
Marr. 16: 15-17. 

“But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb 
without blemish and without spot: ...Who by 
him do believe in God, that raised him up from 
the dead, and gave hsm glory; that your faith and 
hope might be m God.’—I PrErTer 1:19, 21, 


“This was ‘the Lamb slain from the 
foundation of the world,’—slain, that is, ac- 
cording to the testimony of the corporeal 
senses, but undying in the deific Mind. The 
Revelator represents the Son of Man as say- 
ing (Revelation 1:17, 18): ‘I am the first 
and the last: I am he that liveth, and was 
dead (not understood); and, behold, I am 
alive for evermore, (Science has explained 
me).’ This is a mystical statement of the 
eternity of the Christ, and is also a reference 
to the human sense of Jesus crucified.”—S. 
& H. 334: XVI. 


“And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. 
And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto 


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me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: I am he 
that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive 


forever more, Amen, and have the keys of hell and 
of death,’—Rev. 1:17, 18. 


Anyone reading the first chapter of the Book of 
Revelation—the book that Jesus wrote by His 
amanuensis, John the Apostle, will find a concise 
statement of those things which Jesus wished to 
reveal to His people for all time to come. 

The seventeenth and eighteenth verses tell of His 
appearance to John that John might not fear at His 
appearance in His glory. This was an actual ap- 
pearance of the Son of God to the disciple whom 
He loved. John was now to write a book, without 
which the Gospel of Jesus Christ would not be com- 
plete, and this visit of our Lord was to prepare 
John for-the work before him. 


“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave 
unto him, to shew unto lus servants things which 
must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signt- 
fied it by his angel unto his servant John: who bare 
record of the word of God, and of the testimony of 
Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.’— 
PY it align) 


“ Spirit being God, there is but one Spirit, 
for there can be but one infinite, and there- 
fore one God. ‘There are neither Spirits 
many nor Gods many. ‘There is no evil in 
Spirit, because God is Spirit. The theory, 
that Spirit is distinct from matter but must 


FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 115 


pass through it, or into it, to be individual- 
ised, would reduce God to dependency on 
matter, and establish a basis for pantheism.” 
—S. & H. 335: XVII. 


Contradicted by the following word of God in 
Scripture : 


“ Beloved, believe not every spwit, but try the spirits 
whether they are of God: because many false 
prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby 
know ye the spirit of God: Every spirit that con- 
fesseth that Jesus Christ ts come in the flesh is of 
God: and every spirit that confesseth not that 
Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and 
this is that spirit of anttchrist, whereof ye have 
heard that tt should come; and even now already 
is st in the world. Ve are of God, little children, 
and have overcome them: because greater ts he that 
és in you, than he that is in the world.”—I Joun 
4:1-4, 


“ Spirit, God, has created all in and of 
Himself. Spirit never created matter. 
There is nothing in Spirit out of which mat- 
ter could be made, for, as the Bible declares, 
without the Logos, the Aton or Word of 
God, ‘was not anything made that was 
made.’ Spirit is the only substance, the in- 
visible and indivisible infinite God. Things 
spiritual and eternal are substantial. Things 
material and temporal are insubstantial.”— 
Percrent goo sie VT 


Scripture plainly refutes such a statement as that 


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“there is nothing in spirit out of which matter 
could be made.”’ We refer to the Spirit of God. 


“In the beginning God created the heaven and the 

earth, 

“ And the earth was without form, and void; and 
darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the 
Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 
... And God said, Let the waters under the 
heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let 
ithe dry land appear: and it was so... . And God 
made the beast of the earth after ls kind, and 
cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth 
upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that «£ 
was good. 

“ And God said, Let us make man in our image, 
after our own likeness: and let them have domsnston 
over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the 
air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and 
over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the 
earth. ... And God saw everything that he had 
made, and, behold, 1t was very good. And the 
evening and the morning were the sixth day.’— 
—GEN. 1:1, 2, 9, 25, 26, 31. 

For by him were all things created, that are in 

heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, 

whether they be thrones, or dominions, or prénci- 
palities, or powers: all things were created by him, 

and for him,’—Cor, 1: 16. 

“ For though there be that are called gods, whether in 
heaven or in earth, (as there be Gods many, and 
Lords many,) but to us there ts but one God, the 
Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and 
one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and 
we by him.’—I Cor. 8: 5, 6. 


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“And to make all men see what 6s the fellowshtp of 
the mystery, which from the begsnning of the world 
hath been hid in God, who created all things by 
Jesus Christ.’—Epu, 3:9, 

“For of him, and through him, and to him, are all 
things: to whom be glory forever. Amen.’”—Rom. 
biEs36: 


“ Soul and spirit being one, God and Soul 
are one, and this one never included in a 
limited mind or a limited body. Spirit 1s 
eternal, divine. Nothing but Spirit, Soul, 
can evolve Life, for Spirit is more than all 
else. Because Soul is immortal, it does not 
exist in mortality. Soul must be incorporeal 
to be Spirit, for Spirit is not finite. Only 
by losing the false sense of Soul can we gain 
the eternal unfolding of Life as immortality 
brought to light.”—S. & H. 335: XIX. 


This teaching is not in accord with Scripture. 
Life forms Soul, not Soul, Life. 


“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the 
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of 
life; and man became a living soul.’”—GEN. 2:7. 


The only begotten Son of God knew how to become 
incarnate in man, because He created man. God 
said, “ Let us make man.” 


“The same was in the begining with God. All 
things were made by him; and without him was not 
anything made that was made. , . . And the Word 


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was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we be- 
held lis glory, the glory as of the only begotten of 
the Father,) full of grace and truth,’—JouHN 
Res Aa Wag 

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and 
the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by. 
me.’—JOuN 14:6. 


** Mind is the divine Principle, Love, and 
can produce nothing unlike the eternal 
Father-Mother, God. Reality is spiritual, 
harmonious, immutable, immortal, divine, 
eternal. Nothing unspiritual can be real, 
harmonious, or eternal. Sin, sickness, and 
mortality are the suppositional antipodes of 
Spirit, and must be contradictions of real- 
ity.”—S. & H. 335: XX. 


There is no “ God-Mother ” mentioned in Scrip- 
ture. God had no Mother. He was in the begin- 
ning—the first and the last. The mother of 
Christians is Jerusalem above—the New Jerusalem. 


“ But Jerusalem which ts above is free, which is the 
mother of us all”’—Gat, 4: 26. 

“ But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city 
of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to 
an innumerable company of angels. To the general 
assembly and church of the first-born, which are 
written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and 
to the spirits of just men made perfect. And to 
Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the 
blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than 
that of Abel,’—Hes. 12: 22-24, 


FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 119 


“The Ego is deathless and limitless, for 
limits would imply and ‘impose ignorance. 
Mind is the I AM, or infinity. Mind never 
enters the finite. Intelligence never passes 
into non-intelligence, or matter. Good never 
enters into evil, the unlimited into the lim- 
ited, the eternal into the temporal, nor the 
immortal into mortality. The divine Ego, or 
individuality, is reflected in all spiritual in- 
dividuality from the infiniestimal to the infi- 
nite.’—S, & H. 335: XXI. 


The dictionary defines “ ego” as “‘ Self,” the seat 
of consciousness. 


“Be not righteous over much, neither make thyself 
over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself ?”— 
BOCL. 321.0; 


All men have consciousness, but one, the God-man, 
the incarnate, Emmanuel, (God with us) is God. 
God entered into the flesh. “The Word was made 
flesh and dwelt among us.” 


“Immortal man was and is God’s image 
or idea, even the infinite expression of infi- 
nite Mind, and immortal man is co-existent 
and co-eternal with that Mind. He has 
been forever in the eternal Mind, God; but 
infinite Mind can never be in man, but is 
reflected by man. ‘The spiritual man’s con- 
sciousness and individuality are reflections 
of God. They are the emanations of Him 
Who is Life, Truth, and Love. Immortal 


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man is not and never was material, but 
always spiritual and eternal.”—-S. & H. 
330, ONL. 


The above is a theory that created man (Adam) 
is co-existent with God and ‘is not material, but 
always spiritual and eternal.” We have already 
presented Scripture showing it without foun- 
dation and entirely contrary to the Word of 
God, but again we produce the evidence from 
God’s word of the worse than worthlessness of 
the theory. ; 


“And the Lord met Balaam, and put a word in hs 
mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say 
thus... . God is not a man, that he should lie; 
netther the son of man, that he should repent: hath 
he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, 
and shall he not make it good?”—Nvum. 23: 16, 19. 


No man can know God the Father, except His only 
begotten Son, Jesus Christ, reveal Him. 


All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and 
no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither 
knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he 
to whomsoever the Son will reveal him?’—MatTt. 
Rey 


“ But the natural man receiveth not the things of the 
Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: 
neither can he know them, because they are spirit- 
ually discerned.’—I Cor, 2; 14. 


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Adam was created in the image of God from the 
dust of the earth. He was the first man (Adam). 


“So God created man in his own émage, in the image 
of God created he him; male and female created he 
them.”—GEN. 1:27, 

“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the 
ground, and breathed into hts nostrils the breath of 
life; and man became a living soul.”—GEN. 2:7. 


The second man was Jesus Christ—the Lord from 
heaven. 


“The first man ts of the earth, earthy: the second 
man is the Lord from heaven.’—I Cor. 15: 47. 

“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ 
Jesus: who being in the form of God, thought it 
not robbery to be equal with God.”—Puit, 2: 5, 6. 


By His atonement Christ purchased those whom 
He brings to God, according to Scripture. 


“ As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he 
should give eternal life to as many as thou hast 
given him. And this 1s life eternal, that they might 
know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, 
whom thou hast sent.... And now, O Father, 
glorify me with thine own self with the glory which 
I had with thee before the world was. ... For I 
have given unto them the words which thou gavest 
me; and they have received them, and have known 
surely that I come out from thee, and they have 
believed that thou didst send me.’—Joun 17:2, 
Shay tel 


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Only can they be one with God whom God has 
given to Jesus Christ. 


“And now I am no more in the world, but these are 
in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, 
keep through thine own name those whom thou hast 
gwen me, that they may be one, as we are.... 
And now I come to thee; and these things I speak 
in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled 
in themselves. . . . Neither pray I for these alone, 
but for them also which shall believe on me through 
their word.’—JouN 17:11, 13, 20. 


When man is mentioned in Scripture he is cited as 
having all the being in which God created him— 
heart, soul and mind. Man’s body is a part of his 
being. When his body ceases to exist with life his 
spirit has departed to God who gave it. 


“And being found tn fashion as a man, he humbled 
himself, and became obedient unto death, even the 
death of the cross.’—Puit, 2:8. 


“God is indivisible. A portion of God 
could not enter man; neither could God’s 
fulness be reflected by a single man, else God 
would be manifestly finite, lose the deific 
character, and become less than God. All- 
ness is the measure of the infinite, and 
nothing less can express God.”—S. & H. 
3367 XXII 


Jesus Christ being the express image of God, His 
person has all the fullness of God. 


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“ How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salva- 
tion; which at the first began to be spoken by the 
Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that 
heard him; ... Thou madest him a little lower 
than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory 
and honour, and did set him over the works of thy 
hands.”’—HEp. 2: 3, 7. 

“Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre 
of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. Thou lovest 
righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore 
God, thy God, hath anowmted thee with the oil of 
gladness above thy fellows.’—PsauM 45:6, 7. 


“ As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, 
so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up m him, and 
established in the faith, as ye have been taught, 
abounding therein with thanksgiving. Beware lest 
any man spoil you through philosophy and vain 
deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudi- 
ments of the world, and not after Christ. For im 
him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. 
And ye are complete in him, which is the head of 
all principality and power.’—Cot.,. 2: 6-10. 


“God, the divine Principle of man, and 
man in God’s likeness are inseparable, har- 
monious, and eternal. The Science of being 
furnishes the rule of perfection, and brings 
immortality to light. God and man are not 
the same, but in the order of divine Science, 
God and man co-exist and are eternal. God 
is the parent Mind, and man is God’s spirit- 
ual offering.”—S. & H. 336: XXIV. 


This is contrary to Scripture. There comes a 


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time when God judges the dead, and when all 
nations are gathered for judgment. 


“And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before 
God; and the books were opened: and another book 
was opened, which ts the book of life: and the dead 
were judged out of those things which were written 
in the books, according to their works. ... And 
whosoever was not found written in the book of 
Isfe was cast tnto the lake of fire.”—Rev. 20: 12, 15. 
When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and 
all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon 
the throne of his glory: and before him shall be 
gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one 
from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from 
the goats: and he shall set the sheep on his right 
hand, but the goats on the left. . . . Then shall he 
say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from 
me, ye cursed, tnto everlasting fire, prepared for 
the devil and his angels.’—Mavrr., 25: 31-33, 41. 


é 


The being of man does not “ furnish the rule of 
perfection.” ‘That is only furnished by the atone- 
ment of Jesus Christ for man. Christian Science 
(so-called) repudiates the atonement made by Jesus 
Christ, the only begotten Son of God. 


“T have seen an end of all perfection: but thy com- 
mandment is exceeding broad.”—PsaLM 119: 96. 

“ And not only so, but we also joy in God through our 
Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received 
the atonement. . . . But not as the offence, so also 
ts the free gift: for if through the offence of one 
many be dead, much more the grace of God, and 


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the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, 
hath abounded unto many.’—Rom. 5:11, 15. 


“God is individual and personal in a sci- 
entific sense, but not in any anthropomorphic 
sense. Therefore, man, reflecting God, can- 
not lose his individuality; but as material 
sensation, or a soul in the body, blind mor- 
tals do lose sight of spiritual individuality. 
Material personality is not realism; it is not 
the reflection or likeness of Spirit, the per- 
fect God. Sensualism is not bliss, but 
bondage. For true happiness man must 
harmonise with his Principle, divine Love; 
the Son must be in accord with the Father, 
in conformity with Christ. According to 
divine Science, man is in a degree as perfect 
as the Mind that forms him. The truth of 
being makes man harmonious and immortal, 
while error is mortal and discordant.”—S. & 
F330: X XV. 


‘““Anthropomorphic ” is defined as “ having hu- 
man form.” When Jesus Christ was made mani- 
fest as the Only Begotten Son of God, He became 
known as the brightness of God’s glory and the 
express image of His person. 


“Who being the brightness of his glory, and the ex- 
press image of his person, and upholding all things 
by the word of his power, when he had by himself 
purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the 
Majesty on high.’—Hes. 1: 3. 


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He also purged our sins, which we learn from 
Scripture were the sins that opened the way to 
death of man, who became a living soul when the 
Creator breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. 


“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the 
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of 
life; and man became a living soul.’—GEN. 2:7. 

“But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, 
thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou 
eatest thereof thou shalt surely die?’—GEN. 2:17. 

“ Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, 
so also the soul of the son 1s mine: the soul that 
sinneth, it shall dée”’—EzekieEy 18: 4. 

“ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only 
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him 
should not perish, but have everlasting life.’— 
Joun 3: 16. 


Man, after his disobedience, needed a clean heart 
and a right spirit. It must be created in him— 
therefore, the new man Christ Jesus. 


“Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash 
me, and I shall be whiter than snow. . . . Create in 
me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit 
within me.’—PsauM 51:7, 10. 

“ And that ye put on the new man, which after God 
is created in righteousness and true holiness.’— 
Epn. 4: 24. 

“In whom the god of this world hath blinded the 
minds of them which believe not, lest the light of 
the glorious gospel of Christ, who ts the image of 
God, should shine unto them. . . . For which cause 


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we faint not; but though our outward man perish, 
yet the inward man is renewed day by day.”’— 
II Cor. 4:4, 16. 

“ Howbeit that was not first which ts spiritual, but 
that which is natural; and afterward that which is 
spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the 


second man is the Lord from heaven.’—I Cor. 
15: 46, 47. 


If, according to Divine science, “‘ man is in a de- 
gree as perfect as the mind that forms him,” then 
we have made it plain that such science 1s wrong, 
for the man formed of the dust of the ground must 
have a renewing of the spirit and be created anew 
in the second man, Christ Jesus, according to 
Scripture. 


“ Christian Science demonstrates that none 
but the pure in heart can see God, as the 
gospel teaches. In proportion to his purity 
is a man perfect; and perfection is the order 
of celestial being which demonstrates Life in 
Christ, Life’s spiritual ideal.,—S. & H. 
SATO N I: 


There is only one way by which man can become 
perfect, and that is the way Scripture teaches us ;— 
that is, by the cleansing blood of Jesus Christ. 


“In whom we have redemption through his blood, 
the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of 
his grace.’”—Epu. 1:7. 

“In whom we have redemption through his blood, 


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even the forgiveness of sins: Who is the image of 
the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature.”’— 
Coun ind e15: 

“ Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide ts the gate, 
and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, 
and many there be which go in thereat: because 
strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which 
leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”— 
Mart. 7:13, 14. 

“ Neither is there salvation in any other: for there ts 
none other name under heaven given among men, 
whereby we must be saved.’—Acts 4:12. 

“ Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup 
is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for 
you.’—LUKE 22: 20, 

“ For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that - 
not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.”—Epu. 2:8. 


“ The true idea of man, as the reflection of 
the invisible God, is as incomprehensible to 
the limited senses as is man’s infinite Prin- 
ciple. The visible universe and material man 
are the poor counterfeits of the invisible uni- 
verse and spiritual man. Eternal things 
(verities) are God’s thoughts as they exist in 
the spiritual realm of the real. ‘Temporal 
things are the thoughts of mortals and are 
the unreal, being the opposite of the real 
or the spiritual and eternal.’"—S. & H. 
Sea DOAN 


Unless man is born again, he remains in sin. 


“And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth 
himself, even as he 1s pure... . He that commit- 


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teth sin is of the devil; for the devil stnneth from 
the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God 
was manifested, that he might destroy the works 
of the devil. Whosoever ts born of God doth not 
comnut sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he 
cannot sin, because he is born of God.”’—I JouN 
HG haepabe p 


_The natural man cannot receive the things of the 
Spirit of God. 


“But the natural man receiveth not the things of the 
Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: 
neither can he know them, because they are spirit- 
ually discerned,’—I Cor. 2: 14. 


Nowhere in so-called Christian Science is taught 
the new birth that we must be born again. 


“ Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed 
with corruptsble things, as silver and gold, from 
your vain conversation received by tradition from 
your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ, 
as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: 
... Who verily was foreordained before the foun- 
dation of the world, but was manstfest in these last 
temes for you... . Being born again, not of cor- 
ruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of 
God, which liveth and abideth forever.’—I1 PETER 
1: 18-20 23. 


“ Subject sickness, sin, and death to the 
rule of health and holiness in Christian 
Science, and you ascertain that this Science 


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is demonstrably true, for it heals the sick and 
sinning as no other system can. Christian 
Science, rightly understood, leads to eternal 
harmony. It brings to light the.only living 
and true God and man as made in His like- 
ness ; whereas the opposite belief—that man 
originates in matter and has beginning and 
end, that he is both soul and body, both good 
and evil, both spiritual and material—termi- 
nates in discord and mortality, in the error 
which must be destroyed by Truth. The 
mortality of material man proves that error 
has been ingrafted into the premises and con- 
clusions of material and mortal humanity.” 


—S. & H. 337: XXVIII. 


The effectual healing of the sinning is told in 
Scripture in a simple manner, being one way only 
—always the same—that it at once imputes belief 
in those who hunger and thirst after righteousness. 


“Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after 
righteousness: for they shall be filled.’—Mart. 5: 6. 

“But now the righteousness of God without the law 
is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the 
prophets. Even the righteousness of God which is 
by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them 
that believe; for there is no difference.’—Rom. 
Maa hea 

“ But there are some of you that believe not. For 
Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that 
believed not, and who should betray him. And he 
said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can 
come unto me, except it were given unto him of my 


Father.’—Joun 6: 64, 65. 


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“Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of 
Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Naza- 
reth, whom ye crucified, whom God ratsed from 
the dead, even by lim doth this man stand here 
before you whole. This is the stone which was set 
at nought of you builders, which 1s become the head 
of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any 
other: for there ts none other name under heaven 
given among men, whereby we must be saved.’— 
Acts 4: 10-12, 


Man is both soul and body—both good and evil, 
according to Scripture. God brings men to the 
light, and that light is Jesus Christ. 


“In him was life; and the life was the light of 
men.’—JOHN 1:4, 

“For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am 
carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do, I 
allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but 
what I hate, that do I... . For the good that I 
would, I do not: but the evil, which I would not, 
that I do. Now tf I do that I would not, tt 1s no 
more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.’— 
ROMO / Lace 5 19) 20; 

“ How excellent is thy loving-kindness, O God! there- 
fore the children of men put their trust under the 
shadow of thy wings. ... For with thee is the 
fountain of Isfe: in thy light shall we see light.’— 
PsauM 36:7, 9. 


“The word Adam is from the Hebrew 
Adamah, signifying the red colour of the 
ground, dust, nothingness. Divide the name 
Adam into two syllables, and it reads, a dam, 


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or obstruction. This suggests the thought 
of something fluid, or mortal mind in solu- 
tion. It further suggests the thought of that 
‘darkness . . . upon the face of the deep,’ © 
when matter or dust was deemed the agent 
of Deity in creating man,—when matter, as 
that which is accursed, stood opposed to 
Spirit. Here a dam is not a mere play upon 
words; it stands for obstruction, error, even 
the supposed separation of man from God, 
and the obstacle which the serpent, sin, 
would impose between man and his creator. 
The dissection and definition of words, 
aside from their metaphysical derivation, is 
not scientific. Jehovah declared the ground 
was accursed; and from this ground, or 
matter, sprang Adam, notwithstanding God 
had blessed the earth ‘for man’s sake.’ 
From this it follows that Adam was not the 
ideal man for whom the earth was blessed. 
The ideal man was revealed in due time, and 
was known as Christ Jesus.’"—S. & H. 
338: XXIX, 


God created man from that which He had already 
created. 


“ And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the 
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of 
life; and man became a living soul.’—GEN. 2:7. 


The ground was not cursed until after man was 
created from its dust. The ground, when God 
created it, was pronounced good. 


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“ And God called the dry land Earth; and the gather- 
ing together of the waters called he Seas: and God 
saw that it was good. ... And God saw every- 
thing that he had made, and, behold, tt was very 


good. And the evensng and the morning were the 
sixth day.’—GEn. 1:10, 31. 


Man formed from the dust of the ground was not 
complete until God breathed into his nostrils the 
breath of life. He then became a living soul. 

The ground was not cursed because it was bad, 
but was because Adam had disobeyed and it was 
cursed for Adam’s sake. 


* And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast heark- 
ened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of 
the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou 
shalt not eat of it: cursed ts the ground for thy 
sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of tt all the ate of 
thy life. "GEN. 3:17. 


“The destruction of sin is the divine 
method of pardon. Divine Life destroys 
death, Truth destroys error, and Love de- 
stroys hate. Being destroyed, sin needs no 
other form of forgiveness. Does not God’s 
pardon, destroying any one sin, prophesy 
and involve the final destruction of all sin?” 
—S. & H. 339: XXX, 


Sin in Scripture is not mentioned as destroyed. 
On the contrary, it is declared that one sinner can 
destroy much good. 


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“Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one 
sinner destroyeth much good.’—Ecct,. 9: 18. 


The making of good and evil, both, depends upon 
God. ‘To create or destroy good or evil is in the 
power of God alone. 


“T form the light, and create darkness: I make ‘peace, 
and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.’— 
IsataH 45:7, 


We are to fight the good fight of faith. We are 
enjoined to lay hold on eternal life and to keep that 
which is committed to our trust by the grace of 
God, who quickeneth all things. 


“Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal 
life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast pro- 
fessed a good profession before many witnesses. 
-.. O Timothy, keep that which is committed to 
thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and 
oppositions of science falsely so-called: which some 
professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace 
be with thee. Amen.’—I Timoruy 6: 12, 20, 21. 

“Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that 
1s in Christ Jesus.”—II Timoruy 2:1. 


Sin continues to exist to everlasting punishment in 
those whose names are not written in the Book 
of Life. 


“And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: tt is better 
for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two 


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hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall 
be quenched; 

“Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not 
quenched.” —Mark 9: 43, 44. 

“And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before 
God; and the books were opened: and another book 
was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead 
were judged out of those things which were written 
in the books, according to their works. ... 

“And whosoever was not found written in the 
book of life was cast mto the lake of fire.’— 
REVY 20s 20 15, 


* Since God is All, there is no room for 
His unlikeness. God, Spirit, alone created 
all, and called it good. Therefore evil, be- 
ing contrary to good, is unreal, and cannot 
be the product of God. A sinner can receive 
no encouragement from the fact that Science 
demonstrates the unreality of evil, for the 
sinner would make a reality of sin,—would 
make that real, which is unreal, and thus 
heap up ‘wrath against the day of wrath.’ 
He is joining in a conspiracy against him- 
self.—against his own awakening to the 
awful unreality by which he has been de- 
ceived. Only those who repent of sin and 
forsake the unreal, can fully understand the 
unreality of evil.”—S. & H. 339: XXXI. 


Scripture, as we have frequently quoted, declares 
that God creates both good and evil. 


“T form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, 


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and create evil. I the Lord do all these things.’— 
IsatAu 45:7. 


This statement from §. & H. platform shows, 
when compared with the Word of God, how easily 
a theory, that is entirely wrong, may be advanced, 
if once the Scripture is departed from. The great 
unlikeness of God is Satan, the deceiver of men; 
and he exists, and until his time comes, will con- 
tinue to deceive mankind. 

We ask, how can there be an unreality of evil, if 
evil does not exist? 


“Tet no man deceive you by any means: for that day 
shall not come, except there come a falling away 
first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of 
perdition: Who opposeth and exalteth himself 
above all that is called God, or that ¢s wor- 
shipped; so that he, as God, sitteth in the tem- 
ple of God, shewing himself that he is God. Re- 
member ye not, that, when I was yet wth you, I 
told you these things? And now ye know what 
withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 
For the mystery of sniquity doth already work: 
only he who now letteth, will let, until he be taken 
out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be 
revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the 
spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the 
brightness of his coming.’—II THEss. 2: 3-8. 


“As the mythology of pagan Rome has 
yielded to a more spiritual idea of Deity, so 
will our material theories yield to spiritual 


b) 


FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 137 


ideas until the finite gives place to the infi- 
nite, sickness to health, sin to holiness and 
God’s kingdom comes ‘in earth, as it is in 
heaven.’ The basis of all health, sinlessness, 
and immortality is the great fact that God 
is the only Mind; and that this Mind must 
be not merely believed, but it must be under- 
stood. To get rid of sin through Science, is 
to divest sin of any supposed mind or reality, 
and never to admit that sin can have in- 
telligence or power, pain or pleasure. You 
conquer error by denying its verity. Our 
various theories will never lose their imagi- 
nary power for good or evil, until we lose 
our faith in them and make life its own 
proof of harmony and God. 


“This text in the book of Ecclesiastes 
conveys the Christian Science thought, es- 
pecially when the word duty, which 1s not in 
the original, is omitted: ‘Let us hear the 
conclusion of the whole matter! Fear God, 
and keep his commandments: for this is the 
whole duty of man.’ In other words: Let us 
hear the conclusion of the whole matter: 
Love God and keep His commandments: for 
this is the whole of man in His image and 
likeness. Divine Love is infinite. There- 
fore all that really exists is in and of God, 
and manifests His Love. 

** Thou shalt have no other gods before 
me’ (Exodus xx:3). The First Com- 
mandment is my favourite text. It demon- 
strates Christian Science. It inculcates the 
triunity of God, Spirit, Mind; it signifies 
that Man shall have no other spirit or mind 


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but God, eternal good, and that all men shall 
have one Mind. The divine Principle of the 
First Commandment bases the science of be- 
ing, by which man demonstrates health, 
holiness, and life eternal. One infinite God, 
good, unifies men and nations; constitutes 
the brotherhood of man; ends wars; fulfills 
the Scripture, ‘ Love thy neighbour as thy- 
self’; annihilates pagan and Christian idol- 
atry,—whatever is wrong in social, civil, 
criminal, political, and religious codes; 
equalises the sexes; annuls the curse on 
man, and leaves nothing that can sin, suf- 
fer, be punished or destroyed.”—S. & H. 
339: XX NLT 


The bounds of mankind were entered into by 
the Deity. The infinite when the Word which was 
with God, and was God, was made flesh and dwelt 
among us. 


“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was 
with God, and the Word was God. ... And the 
Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and 
we beheld hss glory, the glory as of the only begot- 
ten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.’— 
Joun 1:1, 14. 


Men can only reach the Deity through Jesus Christ. 
In the process of the saving, man is not unclothed, 
but clothed upon, by taking unto himself the gift 
of God, the new man Christ Jesus. 


“For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being 


FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 139 


burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but 
clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up 
of life. Now he that hath wrought us for the 
self same thing is God, who also hath given unto 
us the earnest of the Spirit.”—II Cor. 5:4, 5. 


Scripture does not end with directing man to 
“fear God and keep His commands.” If it did, 
there would be no hope for man. The law of com- 
mandments is overtaken by the covenant of grace. 
By grace are we saved. 


“Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring 
us unto Christ, that we might be justified by fasth.” 
—GaL,. 3: 24. 

“ Moreover, the law entered, that the offence might 
abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much 
more abound.’—Rom. 5: 20. 

“ But God, who 1s rich in mercy, for his great love 
wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead 
in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, 
(by grace ye are saved;).... For by grace are 
ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves; 
it és the gift of God.’”—Epu. 2: 4-5, 8. 


The entry or the omission of the word duty in 
Ficclesiastes 12: 13 does not change the meaning of 
Scripture, for the fourteenth (next) verse verifies 
the value of the reading as it is in the thirteenth 
verse. 


“Tet us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: 
Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is 


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the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every 
work into judgment, with every secret thing, 
whether it be good, or whether it be evil.’— 
Eccy. 12: 13-14. 


In this platform S. & H. gives forth a favourite 
text, namely, Exodus 20: 3. 

Could there possibly be a greater refutation of 
S. & H. error contained in platform eighteen, than 
that found in Exodus 20:11, said to contain a 
favourite text of the author? 

After reading the favourite text of the author of 
S. & H. may we not turn to the name of God, that 
He magnified above all others. 


“T well worship toward thy holy temple, and praise 
thy name for thy loving kindness and for thy truth: 
for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy 
name.”’—PsauM 138: 2. 


Should we represent His name as “ Spirit, Soul, 
Good, Mind, Harmony,’ when He has chosen to 
exalt the name “ Word—the Word made flesh,” 
Jesus Christ, the Name above all? 


“Jesus, Thy Name I love, 
All other names above, 
Jesus, my Lord.” 


IV 


“SOME OBJECTIONS ANSWERED ”— 
REERISTUAN: SGIANOR RAG TICH 
—“ THACHING CHRISTIAN 
SCIENCE” 


N this chapter the three books, “ Some Objec- 
tions Answered,” “ Christian Science Prac- 
tice’ and “ Teaching Christian Science,” are 

reviewed. 

In “ Some Objections Answered,” S. & H. places 
itself in the position of assuming that its state- 
ments will be accepted at their face value, without 
due corroboration from Scripture. Selections of 
Scripture are sometimes quoted without acceptance 
of its vital truth, and used to enforce the ones ad- 
vanced as Christian Science. Here is an instance: 
On page 350 of S. & H. the following quotation 
from Scripture, “ ‘The Word was made flesh,” ap- 
pears. This Scriptural truth of the Deity of Jesus 
Christ is denied many times and in many ways by 
S. & H., both by separating Jesus from Christ and 
by denying the incarnation (the God-Man) and 
making the man Jesus to have a temporary exist- 
ence and not eternal. (See page 336) “ A portion 
of God could not enter man.” “ God is individual 


141 


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and personal in a scientific sense, but not in any (a 
human form) anthropomorphic sense.” After 
which quotation, “ ‘’The Word was made flesh,’ ” 
the quotation is put to use in an attempt to enforce 
Christian Science theories. 


“Paul alludes to ‘ doubtful disputations.’ 
The hour has struck when proof and demon- 
stration instead of opinion and dogma, are 
summoned to the support of Christianity, 
‘making wise the simple’”—S. & H. 
342: 1, 2, 3, 4. 


Now Paul’s reference is to those weak in the 
faith. 


“ Him that is weak tn the fatth receive ye, but not to 
doubtful disputations. For one believeth that he 
may eat all things: another, who ts weak, eateth 
herbs.’—Rom., 14: 1-2. 


For those outside of the Christian faith, who re- 
ceive not the Gospel as Paul preached it, Paul uses 
strong terms, and this he does in the very chapter 
from which S$. & H. makes the quotation. Paul’s 
references were evidently to questions which had 
arisen in the Church of his day. 


“For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but 
righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy 
Ghost. For he that in these things serveth Christ 
is acceptable to God, and approved of men... . 
It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, 


“SOME OBJECTIONS ANSWERED” 143 


nor anything whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is 
offended, or 1s made weak. ... And he that 
doubteth 1s damned tf he eat, because he eateth 
not of faith: for whatsoever ts not of faith 1s sin.” 


Bream ld 17118021) 23. 


“Tf Christianity is not scientific, and 
Science is not of God, then there is no in- 
variable law, and truth becomes an accident. 
Shall it be denied that a system which works 
according to the Scriptures has Scriptural 
authority ? 

“ Christian Science awakens the sinner, 
reclaims the infidel, and raises from the 
couch of pain the helpless invalid.”——S, & H. 
342: 16-23. 


If Scripture works according to the system of 
S. & H. why was there any need of the second 
system ? 

Did not faith come by hearing, and hearing by 
the word of God? Paul so asserts: 


“So, then, faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by 
the word of God.’—Rom. 10: 17. 


If “ Christian Science is in accord with Scripture,” 
then it is not a discovery, as claimed by S. & H. 

Why should the works of Jesus be proclaimed as 
a discovery ? 


“Then Jesus answermg, said unto them, Go your 
way, and tell John what things ye have seen and 
heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the 


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lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are 
raised, to the poor the gospel 1s preached.”— 
Luke 7: 22. 


No Christian but would rejoice in the deliver- 
ance of anyone from a-delusion of illness where 
such delusion existed, but every Christian must 
decline to follow where the communion in remem- 
brance of our Saviour delivered to the Church of 
Christ by the Saviour, and later by the apostle Paul, 
is disowned. | 

We quote—‘ Christian Science awakens the 
sinner.” 

But if sin is not a reality, how can there be a 
sinner? (See page 339 of S.& H.) “To get rid 
of sin through Science is to divest sin of any sup- 
posed mind or reality.” 


“Tt would sometimes seem as if truth 
were rejected because meekness and spirit- 
uality are the conditions of its acceptance, 
while Christendom generally demands so 
much less. 

“ Anciently those apostles who were Jesus’ 
students, as well as Paul, who was not one 
of His students, healed the sick and re- 
formed the sinner by their religion. Hence 
the mistake which allows words, rather than 
works, to follow such examples! Whoever 
is the first meekly and conscientiously to 
press along the line of gospel-healing, is 
often accounted a_heretic.”—S. 

343: 21-30. 


“SOME OBJECTIONS ANSWERED” 145 


Untold numbers of Christians work, preach, 
heal, and give hope and salvation through Christ 
Jesus and are not heretics. 

Was not Paul a student of Jesus Christ? Who 
of the Apostles has broken the bread of life to 
mankind to a greater extent? From whom did he 
take his faith, courage, and strength? 


“And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and 
suddenly there shined round about him a light from 
heaven: And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice 
saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou 
me? ... And he, trembling and astonished, sasd, 
Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the 
Lord said unto him, Arise, and go snto the city, 
and it shall be told thee what thou must do.”’— 
Acts 9: 3-4, 6. 

“ He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him 
up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely 
give us all things? ... For I am persuaded, that 
neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principals- 
ties, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to 
come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, 
shall be able to separate us from the love of God, 
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.’—Rom. 8: 32, 
38-39, 


“Were it more fully understood that 
Truth heals and that error causes disease, 
the opponents of a demonstrable Science 
would perhaps mercifully withhold their 
misrepresentations, which harm the sick.”— 


. & H, 344: 11, 12, 13, 14, 


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But how can error cause disease if error be not a 
reality? 


“ The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: 
the testumony of the Lord 1s sure, making wise the 
simple: the statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing 
the heart: the commandment of the Lord ts pure, 
enlightening the eyes....Who can undersaand 
his errors? cleanse thou 1 me from. secret JOU S 


PsauM 19: 7-8, 12. 


Here we find in Scripture that “ soul” is not God. 
It is that in man which needs to be converted. Soul 
is not what is taught by S. & H. (page 302-21), 
nor is S. & H. in accord with the following 
Scripture : 


“Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner 
from the error of his way shall save a soul from 
death, and shall hsde a multitude of sins.’—JAMES 
Siew, 


We also learn from Scripture that error is so real 
that it may lead back to error those who have once 
escaped. 


“ For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, 
they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through 
much wantonness, those that were clean escaped 
from them who live in error.’—II PETER 2: 18. 


How sound is the doctrine that teaches us to pray 
the following prayer! 


“SOME OBJECTIONS ANSWERED” 147 


“ And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from 
evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and 
the glory forever. Amen,’—Matt. 6: 13. 


Should we not pray this prayer that we may be 
delivered from the evil that Paul, in his day, taught 
was to come? Here are Paul’s teachings of that 
coming day: 
\ 

“Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of 
our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering to- 
gether unto him, that ye be not soon shaken in 
mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, 
nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ 
is at hand. ... And then shall that Wicked be 
revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the 
spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the 
brightness of his coming: even him, whose coming 
is after the working of Satan with all power and 
signs and lying wonders, and with all decewable- 
ness of unrighteousness in them that perish; be- 
cause they recewed not the love of the truth, that 
they might be saved.’—II Tuxss. 2: 1-2, 8-10. 


“There are various methods of treating 
disease, which are not included in the com- 
monly accepted systems; but there is only 
one which should be presented to the whole 
world, and that is the Christian Science 
which Jesus preached and practised and 
left to us as His rich legacy.”—S. & H. 
344 : 19-24 


We call attention to this mention of “ Science,” 
which we find in the New Testament. 


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“O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy 
trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and 
oppositions of science falsely so-called.’—I T1m- 


otHy 6: 20, 


“Why should one refuse to investigate 
this method of treating disease? Why sup- 
port the popular systems of medicine, when 
the physician may perchance be an. infidel 
and may lose ninety and nine patients, while 
Christian Science cures its hundred? Is it 
because allopathy and homeopathy are more 
fashionable and less spiritual? ’’—S. & "H. 
344; 25-31. 


Answering this question, upon investigation 
Christian Science as portrayed in S. & H. is found 
to be un-Scriptural, and is, therefore, rejected by 
the Christian who accepts what Jesus taught and 
practised rather than a healing cult, whose teachi- 
ings reject Scripture. 

In the investigation there is found reason to be- 
lieve that professional services rendered in practice 
of Christian Science have much to do with the 
making of adherents to its theories. 


“Anybody, who is able to perceive the in- 
congruity between God’s idea and poor hu- 
manity, ought to be able to discern the 
distinction, (made by Christian Science) be- 
tween God’s man, made in His image, and 
the sinning race of Adam.”—S. & H. 
345 : 21-24. | 


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“When man is spoken of as made in 
God’s image, it is not sinful and sickly mor- 
tal man who is referred to, but the ideal man 
reflecting God’s likeness.” —S. & H. 346: 2-5. 


We give God’s idea of humanity: 


“Thy first father hast sinned, and thy teachers have 
transgressed against me.’—IsaiaH 43: 27. 

“ And God said, Let us make man in our wage, after 
our likeness; and let them have dominson over the 
fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and 
over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over 
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 
So God created man tn his own image, in the mage 
of God created he him; male and female created he 
them. And God blessed them, and God said unto 
them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the 
earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the 
fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and 
over every living thing that moveth upon the 
earth. ... And God saw everything that he had 
made, and, behold, tt was very good. And the 
evening and the morning were the sixth day.’— 
Gen, 1: 26-28, 31. 

“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the 
ground, and breathed into hts nostrils the breath of 
life; and man became a living soul.’—GEN. 2:7. 


We give, also, His word regarding His Only Be- 
gotten Son: 


“ And Jesus, when he was baptised, went up straight- 
way out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were 


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opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God 
descending like a dove and lighting upon lim: And, 
lo, a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved 
Son, in whom I am well pleased.’—Marr. 3: 16-17. 

“Tt is written wn the prophets, And they shall be all 
taught of God. Every man, therefore, that hath 
heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto 
me. Not that any man hath seen the Father, save 
he which is of God, he hath seen the Father. Ver- 
sly, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me 
hath everlasting life. I am the bread of lsfe.’— 
Joun 6: 45-48. 

“For the word of God 1s quick and powerful, and 
sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even 
to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of 
the joints and marrow, and ts a discerner of the 
thoughts and intents of the heart. Netther ts there 
any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but 
all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of 
him with whom we have to do. Seeing, then, that 
we have a great high priest, that is passed into the 
heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our 
profession. For we have not an high priest which 
cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmu- 
ties; but was sn all points tempted like as we are, 
yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto 
the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and 
find grace to help in time of need.’—Hes. 4: 12-16. 


Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, is 
nowhere in Scripture mentioned as made in God’s 
image. It was Adam who was thus created, but 
Jesus was conceived by the Holy Ghost, the God- 
man without sin, as all other men were created 


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liable to sin. We have given, above, the Scripture 
for these truths. 

As these pages are being written, already the sun 
is giving us its warm rays and fresh hopes of 
spring, and the promise of a following seed time 
and harvest. 

Fiven so the Son of righteousness rises, with 
-healing in His wings. Many are trusting under 
the shadow of His wings; many more will learn 
doctrine from that compass, Scripture, which points 
ever to Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God. 


“But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of 
righteousness arise with healing im his wings; and 
ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the 
stall;’-—Maacui 4:2, 

“ They also that erred in spirst shall come to under- 
standing, and they that murmured shall learn 
doctrine.’—IsAIAH 29: 24, 

“ Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, 
O earth, the words of my mouth. My doctrine 
shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the 
dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and 
as the showers upon the grass: Because I will pub- 
lish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto 
our God. He ts the Rock, his work is perfect; 
for all his ways are yudgment: a God of truth and 
without iniquity, just and right és he.’—DkgEvt. 
32: 1-4. 


“*The flesh lusteth against the Spirit, 
and the Spirit against the flesh.’ Who is 
ready to admit this? ... 


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“Tf Christian Science takes away the 
popular gods,—sin, sickness, and death,—it 
is Christ, Truth, who destroys these evils, 


and so proves their nothingness.”—-S. & H. 
347: 1-2, 23-25. 


The lusting of the flesh against the spirit, quoted 
by S. & H., is against the Spirit, which God gives 
those who believe in his Son, which was not given 
to the disciples of Jesus until the Church of Christ 
received Him on the day of Pentecost. 


“ Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Ex- 
cept a man be born of water and of the Spirst, he 
cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which 
és born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born 
of the Spirit is spirst.’—-JoHN 3: 5-6. 

“T indeed baptise you wth water unto repentance: 
but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, 
whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall bap- 
tise you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire.’— 
Marr, 3:11. 


The spirit of natural man is not the Spirit which 
they receive who believe on Jesus Christ. 


“Tn the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus 
stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him 
come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on 
me, as the Screpture hath satd, out of his belly shall 
flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of 
the Spirit, which they that believe on him should 
receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given: he- 


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cause that Jesus was not yet glorified.)”—JouN 
7: 37-39, 

“But the natural man receiveth not the things of the 
Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: 
neither can he know them, because they are spirit- 
ually discerned.”’—I Cor. 2:14. 


The apostle Peter spoke of God’s Spirit as follows: 


“ But, Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his 
votce, and said unio them, Ye men of Judea, and 
all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto 
you, and hearken to my words: For these are not 
drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third 
hour of the day. But this is that which was spoken 
by the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass in 
the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my spsrit 
upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters 
shall prophesy and your young men shall see vis- 
tons, and your old men shall dream dreams: and on 
my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour 
out in those days, of my Spirtt; and they shall 
prophesy.”—Acts 2: 14-18. 


The “breath of life” breathed into Adam was 
not the Holy Ghost. That Spirit came upon be- 
lievers only. Before the day of Pentecost, when 
Christ’s Church received the Holy Ghost, the Spirit 
of God was a gift to man from God. 


“ And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find 
such a one as this ts, a man in whom the Spirit of 
God is? And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Foras- 
much as God hath shewed thee all of thts, there ts 


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none so discreet and wise as thou art.’—GEN. 
41 : 38-39, 

“ All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all 
that was in the dry land, died.’—GEN. 7: 22. 

“ And the Lord said unto Moses, Gather unto me sev- 
enty men of the elders of Israel, whom thou know- 
est to be the elders of the people, and officers over 
them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the 
congregation, that they may stand there with thee. 

“ And I will come down and talk with thee there: 
and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and 
will put it upon them, and they shall bear the bur- 
den of the people with thee, that thou bear tt not 
thyself alone... . 

“ And Moses went out, and told the people the 
words of the Lord, and gathered the seventy men 
of the elders of the people, and set them round 
about the tabernacle. 

“ And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spake 
unto him, and took of the spwit that was upon him, 
and gave tt unto the seventy elders: and tt came to 
pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they 
prophesied, and did not cease. 

“ But there remained two of the men in the camp, 
the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the 
other Medad: and the spirit rested upon them; and 
they were of them that were written, but went not 
out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the 
camp 

“And there ran a young man, and told Moses, 
and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the 
camp. 

“And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of 
Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, 


My Lord Moses forbid them. 


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“ And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my 
sake? Would God that all the Lord’s people were 
prophets, and that the Lord would put ls spirit 
upon them.’—Num., 11: 16-17, 24-29. 


The reasoning of S. & H. is based upon the error 
that the spirit of man and the Spirit of God are 
identical, and thus it quotes the Scripture: 


“For the flesh lusteth against the S‘pirit, and the 
Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the 
one to the other; so that ye cannot do the things 
that ye would,”—Gat, 5:17. 


The part of the verse not quoted by S$. & H. and 
this following verse, “‘ But if ye be led of the spirit, 
ye are not under the law,” (Gal. 5:18), form plain 
testimony that the natural man under the law of 
God was incapable of fulfilling the requirements of 
the Spirit of God, and that a new covenant, that 
of the fulfillment by Jesus Christ for mankind was 
necessary ; and thus the Holy Ghost was given to 
believers on Jesus Christ. 


“ And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh 
with the affections and lusts.” —Gat,. 5: 24. 

“Who hath believed our report? and to whom ts the 
arm of the Lord revealed? ... But he was 
wounded for our transgressions, he was brutsed for 
our imiquities: the chastisement of our peace was 
upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 

“All we, like sheep, have gone astray; we have 
turned everyone to his own way; and the Lord hath 


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laid on him the swuqusty of us all.’—IsA1an 
532 15-6. 


“<The Word was made flesh.’ Divine 
truth must be known by its effects on the 
body as well as on the mind, before the 
Science of being can be demonstrated. 
Hence its embodiment in the incarnate 
Jesus—that life-link forming the connection 
through which the real reaches the unreal, 


Soul rebukes sense, and Truth destroys er- 
ror.’—S. & H. 350: 24-30. 


“In the begenning was the Word, and the Word was 
with God, and the Word was God... . And the 
Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and 
we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begot- 
ten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.’— 
Joun 1:1, 14. 


It was not that “ Divine Truth must be known by 
its effects on the body,” that the Only Begotten Son 
was sent by the Father. He was sent that He might 
become a mediator between God and His created 
man, thus bringing to Himself many sons. 


“ But not as the offence, so also is the free gsft. For 
if through the offence of one many be dead, much 
more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which 
és by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto 
many. ... For if by one man’s offence death 
reigned by one; much more they which receive 
abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteous-— 
ness, shall resgn in life by one, Jesus Christ... . 


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That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might 
grace reign, through righteousness, unto eternal 
life, by Jesus Christ our Lord.’—Rom. 5:15, 
Loreal | 

“ For it became him, for whom are all things, and by 
whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto 
glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect 
through sufferings.’—HeEs. 2:10. 


“For our light affliction, whtch is but for a moment, 
worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal 
weight of glory; while we look not at the things 
which are seen, but at the things which are not 
seen: for the things whch are seen are temporal; 
but the things which are not seen are eternal.’— 
IIT Cor. 4: 17-18. 

“And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the 
Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, 
Father.’—Gat, 4:6. 


It was not that soul might “ rebuke sense,” but 
that the Word (Jesus Christ), being made flesh 
might atone for all to whom the Father gives 
Jesus Christ His Son, the Atonement and: Medi- 
ator. Thus man, his heart, soul and mind is 
adopted by the Father by His grace, through faith. 


“ Fer we are saved by hope: but hope that 1s seen is 
not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet 
hope for? Likewise the Spirst also helpeth our 
infirmities: for we know not what we should pray 
for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh snter- 
cession for us with groanings which cannot be 
uttered.”—Rom. 8: 24-26, 


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“ For by grace are ye saved through fasth; and that 
not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.”—Epu., 2: 8. 


“The author became a member of the 
orthodox Congregational Church in early 
years. Later she learned that her own 
prayers failed to heal her as did the prayers 
of her devout parents and the church; but 
when the spiritual sense of the creed was 
discerned in the Science of Christianity, this 
spiritual sense was a present help. It was 
the living, palpitating presence of Christ, 
Truth, which healed the sick.’—S. & H. 
351: 8-14. 


Had the Apostle Paul any less faith through 
which he performed miracles than the author of 
S. & H.? Yet he was obedient to God’s will. 


“ And lest I should be exalted above measure through 
the abundance of the revelations, there was given to 
me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to 
buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. 
For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it 
might depart from me. And he said unto me, My 
grace 1s sufficient for thee: for my strength 1s made 
perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I 
rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of 
Christ may rest upon me.’—II Cor. 12:7, 8, 9. 


“Our Master declared that His material 
body was not spirit, evidently considering it 
a mortal and material belief of flesh and 
bones, whereas the Jews took a diametrically 


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opposite view. To Jesus, not materially, but 
spiritually, was the reality of man’s exist- 
ence, while to the rabbis the spiritual was the 
intangible and uncertain, if not the unreal.” 


—S. & H. 352: 5-11. 


Jesus Christ was very man and very God, perfect 
in both. He was without sin, the Word made flesh. 


“Tn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was 
with God, and the Word was God.”—Joun 1:1. 


All other men are fallible, having had both father 
and mother of earthly parentage. The Father of 
Jesus Christ is God from heaven. To come into 
His family men must be adopted. The way is 
through Jesus Christ. 


“ But while he thought on these things, behold, the 
angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, 
saying, Joseph, thou Son of David, fear not to take 
unto thee Mary thy wife; for that whtch 1s con- 
ceived in her 1s of the Holy Ghost. 

“And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt 
call his name Jesus: for he shall save his people 
from their sins.’—Marr, 1: 20, 21. 

“Or else how can one enter into a strong man’s house, 
and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong 
man? and then he will spoil his house. 

“He that is not with me is against me: and he 
that gathereth not with me, scattereth abroad. 

“Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin 
and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men; but the 


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blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be for- 
given unto men.’—Marr. 12: 29-31. 


“ Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, 
and the life; no man cometh unto the Father, but 
by me.”’—Joun 14:6. 


Jesus, referring to Himself, said: 


“ Behold my hands and my feet, that tt 1s I myself: 
handle me, and see; for a spirst hath not flesh and 
bones, as ye see me have.’—LuKE 24: 39. 


It was not a spirit (a spectre). But that saying did 
not imply that He was not “the spirit’’ of God. 
For the saying, “As ye see me have,” implied a 
being other than flesh and bones, yet possessing 
flesh and bones as a part of His being. 


“The grave does not banish the ghost of 
materiality. So long as there are supposed 
limits to Mind, and those limits are human, 
so long will ghosts seem to continue. Mind 
is limitless. It never was material.”—S. & 


F893: go-2. 


The above teaching about the mind does not 
agree with the teachings of Scripture, which we 
give. Scripture has two minds, one of man and 
one of God: 


“And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the 


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Lord hath sent me to do all these works; for I have 
not done them of mine own mind.’—Nuvm. 16: 28. 
... If Balak would give me lus house full of silver 
and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of 
the Lord to do either good or bad of mine own 
mind; but what the Lord saith, that will I speak.” 
—Nuvum. 24: 13. 


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There is a wicked mind, which certainly is not the 
mind of God. 


“The sacrifice of the wicked ts abomination: how 
much more, when he bringeth st with a wicked 
mind? ’’—Prov. 21:27. 


If a mind is stayed on another, there must be 
two minds, 


“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind 
is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.’— 
IsaAIAH 26: 3. 


Two minds exist: 


“ Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for 
it ss not subject to the law of God, neither indeed 
can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot 
please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the 
Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. 
Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he 
is none of his.’—Rom., 8: 7-9. 


The mind of the natural man needs to be renewed 


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in its spirit and the new man, Christ Jesus, is 
necessary. 


“And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and 
that ye put on the new man, which after God ts 
created in righteousness and true holiness.”—EPH. 


4:23, 24. 


The mind of the Lord is beyond being instructed, 
but men may have the mind of Christ if they will 
believe and follow Him. 


“But he that is spiritual gudgeth all things, yet he 
himself is judged of no man. For who hath known 
the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? 
But we have the mind of Christ.’—I Cor. 2:15, 16. 

“ Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new 
creature: old things are passed away; behold, all 
things are become new. And all things are of God, 
who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, 
and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 
... For he hath made him to be sin for us, who 
knew no sin; that we might be made the righteous- 
ness of God in him.”—II Cor. 5:17, 18, 21. 


* As for sin and disease, Christian Science 
says, in the language of the Master, ‘ Follow 
me; and let the dead bury their dead.’ Let 
discord of every name and nature be heard 
no more, and let the harmonious and true 
sense of life and being take possession of 
human consciousness. 

“What is the relative value of the two 
conflicting theories regarding christian heal- 


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ing? One, according to the commands of 
our Master, heals the sick. The other, popu- 
lar religion, declines to admit that Christ’s 

_ religion has exercised any systematic healing 
power since the first century.”—S. & H. 
355: 9-18. 


What other meaning can be consistently given to 
our Lord’s directions, “Let the dead bury their 
dead,” than that He desired the immediate follow- 
ing of Himself by His disciples, who, having been 
dead in trespasses and sin, He had quickened? 


“But God, who ts rich in mercy, for his great love 
wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in 
sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by 
grace ye are saved;)”—Epu. 2:4, 5. 

“But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from 
the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from 
the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by 
his Spirit that dweileth in you.’—Rom. 8:11. 

“ For as the Father raised up the dead, and quicken- 
eth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he 
will,’—JoHN 5:21 


Contact with Christian people and Christian 
literature makes known the truth that for ages faith 
in prayer has brought healing to God’s people. It 
is inconceivable that those of our Lord’s followers 
who have believed the written Word and have fol- 
lowed Him, should not have had the benefit in all 
instructions of Him who prayed for them, centu- 
ries ago. 


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“Nesther pray I for these alone, but for them also 
which shall believe on me through their word.’— 
Joun 17: 20. 


“The statement that the teachings of 
Christian Science in this work are ‘abso- 
lutely false, and the most egregious falla- 
cies ever offered for acceptance,’ is an 
opinion wholly due to a misapprehension 
both of the divine Principle and practice of 
Christian Science, and to a consequent in- 
ability to demonstrate this Science.”—S. & 
HS 9520226, 


But how much evidence has Christian Science pro- 
duced for the inquirer that the material body of 
man and the pains and ills which it is subject to 
are nothingness by demonstrations? 

Who can say truthfully that the admonition of 
James has not been followed through many gener- 
ations by Christians? 


“And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the 
Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed 
sins, they shall be forgiwen him. Confess your 
faults one to another, and pray one for another, 
that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent 
prayer of a righteous man availeth much.’— 
James 5:15, 16. 


“Jesus reasoned on this subject practi- 
cally, and controlled sickness, sin, and death 
on the basis of His spirituality. Under- 
standing the nothingness of material things, 


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he spoke of flesh and Spirit as the two op- 
posites—as error and Truth, not contributing 
in any way to each other’s happiness and ex- 
istence. Jesus knew, ‘It is the spirit that 


quickeneth ; the flesh profiteth nothing.’ ”— 
on ed 3507 9-15: 


Jesus says that the works of God were to believe 
on Him whom He hath sent. 


“ Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the 
work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath 
sent.’ —JOuN 6:29, 


He also said that He came to do the will of the 
Father and to do God’s works. 


“Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the wll of 


him that sent me, and to finish his work.’—JoHN 
4: 34, 


His disciples followed the Gospel of Jesus: 


“ Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our 
tongues the wonderful works of God.’—Acts 2: 11, 

“And when Peter saw tt, he answered unto the peo- 
ple, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? Or 
why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our 
own power or holiness we had made this man to 
walk?”—Acts 3:12. 


Neither Jesus nor His disciples did miracles on the 
basis of their own spirituality. 


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“ But I have greater witness than that of John: for 
the works which the Father hath given me to finish, 
the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that 
the Father hath sent me... . Search the scrip- 
tures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: 
and they are they which testify of me.’—JOHN 
Bi OUD, 


“The Christian who believes in the First 
Commandment is a monotheist. Thus he 
virtually unites with the Jew’s belief in one 
God, and recognises that Jesus Christ is not 
God, as Jesus Himself declared, but is the 
Son of God. This declaration of Jesus, un- 
derstood, conflicts not at all with another of 
His sayings: ‘I and my Father are one,— 
that is, one in quality, not in quantity. Asa 
drop of water is one with the ocean, a ray 
of light one with the sun, even so God and 
man, Father and son, are one in being. 
Scripture reads: ‘For in him we live, and 
move, and have our being.’—S. & H. 
SOL /9-19) 


The statements quoted above are not borne out 
in Scripture. The Christian believes in the person 
of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Ghost; 
three in one. The Christian believes that Jesus was 
in the form of God. The Christian believes that 
the Word is God. 


“ For there are three that bear record in heaven, the 
Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these 
three are one.’—I JouN 5:7. 


“SOME OBJECTIONS ANSWERED” 167 


“Tet this mind be in you, which was also in Christ 
Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it 
not robbery to be equal with God: but made him- 
self of no reputatson, and took upon lim the form 
of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 
and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled 
himself, and became obedient unto death, even the 
death of the cross. ... And that every tongue 
should confess that Jesus Christ 1s Lord, to the 
glory of God the Father:?’—Puit,. 2: 5-8, 11. 

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was 
with God, and the Word was God. ... And the 
Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and 
we beheld hts glory, the glory as of the only begot- 
ten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.’— 
Joun 1:1, 14. 


When Jesus said, “I and my Father are one,” He 
did not say He was a part of the Father, “as one 
drop or one ray,” but being in the form of God, 
He thought it not robbery to be equal with God, 
for the Father had so placed Him. 

The angel proclaimed to Zacharias the truth: 


“ And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to 
the Lord their God. ... And his father Zacha- 
rias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, 
saying, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he 
hath visited and redeemed his people, and hath 
raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house 
of his servant David; as he spake by the mouth of 
his holy prophets, which have been since the world 
began: That we should be saved from our enemies, 
and from the hand of all that hate us; ... And 


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thou, child, shalt be called the Prophet of the High- 
est: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord, 
to prepare his ways.’—LukE 1:16, 67-71, 76. 


The prophets gave their testimony. 


“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, 
and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and 
his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, 
The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The 
Prince of Peace.”’—Isatau 9: 6. 

“ Therefore the Lord himself shall gsve you a sign: 
Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and 
shall call his name Immanuel,’—Isatau 7: 14, 

“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave 
unto him, to shew unto hss servants things which 
must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signi- 
fied tt by his angel unto his servant John: Who bare 
record of the word of God, and of the testsmony of 
Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. ...T1 
am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end- 
ing, saith the Lord, which os, and which was, and 
which is to come, the Almighty.”—Rerv. 1:1, 2, 3. 

“Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our 
faith; who for the joy that was set before him en- 
dured the cross, despising the shame and 1s set 
down at the right hand of the throne of God.’— 
ELBB Whee 2p 

“ Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, 
Before Abraham was, I am.’—Joun 8: 58. 


“Jesus said of personified evil, that it was 
‘a liar, and the father of it.’ Truth creates 
neither a lie, a capacity to lie, nor a liar.”— 


SiGe bd god & 70s 


“SOME OBJECTIONS ANSWERED” 169 


God created man. According to Scripture man 
was created with a capacity to lie. 


“So God created man in his own image, in the mage 
of God created he him; male and female created he 
them.’—GEN,. 1:27, 

“Tf a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the 
Lord, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was 
delivered him to keep, or wn fellowship, or in a 
thing taken away by violence, or hath decewed his 
neighbour ;”—Lkv. 6:2. 

“ God is not a man, that he should he; neither the son 
of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and 
shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he 
not make it good?”—Nvm. 23:19, 


“We never read that Luke or Paul made 
a reality of disease in order to discover some 
means of healing it. Jesus never asked if 
disease were acute or chronic, and He never 
recommended attention to laws of health, 
never gave drugs, never prayed to know if 
God were willing that a man should live.”— 
S. & H. 369: 14-19, 


Neither Paul nor Luke needed to make a reality 
of disease. They recognised that it was existing 
as a reality. Paul prescribed wine for Timothy 
in place of water. Luke was recognised as a 
physician. 

The existence of health is sufficient proof, that 
its reverse exists and is a reality. For health but 
expresses the truth that where it exists disease 


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does not exist. Jesus recognised both sickness and 
health, and also the need of physicians. James 
recognised sickness as a reality, and an infirmity 
of man. 


“But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They 
that be whole need not a physician, but they that 
are sick,’—Matrt. 9:12, 

“Ts any sick among you? let him call for the elders of 
the church; and let them pray over him, anostnting 
him with oil in the name of the Lord: 

“And the prayer of fatth shall save the sick, and 
the Lord shall rasse him up; and if he have com- 
mitted sins, they shall be forgiven hwm.’—JAMES 
Sab: 

“Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy 
stomach’s sake and thine often infirmitses.’— 
TIMOTHY oso: 


surely what God said He would do was a reality: 


“ Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the Lord thy 
God, and do his commandments and his statutes, 
which I command thee this day.’—-DrEvut. 27: 10. 

“ The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, 
until he hath consumed thee from off the land, 
whither. thou goest to possess tt. The Lord shall 
smite thee with a consumptson, and with a fever, 
and with an inflammation, and with an extreme 
burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and 
with mildew: and they shall pursue thee until thou 
perish... .If thou wilt not observe to do all the 
words of this law that are written in this book, that 
thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, 


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Tur Lorp tuy Gop; then the Lord will make thy 
plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, 
even great plagues, and of long continuance, and 
sore sicknesses and of long continuance.”—DEvt. 


28 : 21-22, 58-59. 
Scripture recognises an incurable disease from God. 


© And after all this the Lord smote him in his bowels 
with an éncurable disease. And it came to pass, 
that in process of time, after the end of two years, 
his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he 
died of sore diseases: and his people made no burn- 
ing for him, like the burning of Ms fathers.’— 
II Curon, 21: 18-19. 


* Remember, brain is not mind. Matter 
cannot be sick and Mind is immortal... . 

“When man demonstrates Christian 
Science absolutely, he will be perfect. He 
can neither sin, suffer, be subject to matter, 
nor disobey the law of God.’—S. & H. 
372: 1-2. 


Does any kind of science change the truth that 
a tooth is matter and if an ulceration takes place 
there, then suffering occurs? If the tooth, or the 
ulceration, is removed, the suffering ceases. The 
same mind that was troubled because of the suffer- 
ing ceases to be troubled by it. 

When the Saviour said, “‘ They that are sick need 
a physician,” did He not thereby recommend a 
physician? 


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If we are unfaithful in the things that God has 
furnished us with in herbs and other remedies at 
hand, and turn from them, declining to use them, 
what right have we to claim miracles from Him 
for cures? 

Miracles were used by Him in order that men 
might know that He had all power to forgive sins: 


“ He that is faithful in that which ¢s least, 1s faithful 
also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is 
unjust also in much. If therefore ye have not been 
faithful in the unrighteous-mammon, who will 
commit to your trust the true riches? ”’—LUKE 


16: 10-11. 


If any kind of science can do what Christian 
Science claims it can do, then Christian Science 
makes the Gospel of Jesus Christ, through S. & H. 
theories, to become useless for the salvation of men, 
and the Only Begotten Son of God without the 
mission for which He was sent of the Father to 
accomplish. 


“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only 
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him 
should not perish, but have everlasting life.”’— 
Joun 3: 16. 


“Contending for the evidence or indulg- 
ing the demands of sin, disease, or death, we 
virtually contend against the control of Mind 
over body, and deny the power of Mind to 
heal. This false method is as though the 


“SOME OBJECTIONS ANSWERED” 173 


defendant should argue for the plaintiff in 
favour of a decision which the defendant 
knows will be turned against himself.”— 


S. & H. 380: 8-14. 


Looking at the Scripture by the apostle Paul, we 
find him conscious of a law within him warring 
against the law of his mind, bringing him into cap- 
tivity to the law of sin in his members. He calls 
out, ‘‘ Who shall deliver me?” He finds deliver- 
ance not by mind, but “ through Jesus Christ our 


ord 


“For I delight n the law of God after the inward 
man: But I see another law in my members, war- 
ring against the law of my mind, and bringing me 
into captivity to the law of sin which is in my 
members. O wretched man that I am! who shall 
deliver me from the body of this death? I thank 
God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then, 
with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but 
with the flesh the law of sin.’—Rom. 7: 22-25. 


Thus the mind of man is not the mind of God. 


“ Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for 
it 1s not subject to the law of God, netther indeed 
can be.’—Rom. 8:7. 


By being born again we have the mind of Jesus 
Christ. 


“For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he 


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may instruct him? But we have the mind of 
Christ.’—I Cor. 2: 16. 

“ For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are 
my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts 
than your thoughts.’—IsataH 55:9, 


“Instead of blind and calm submission to 
the incipient or advanced stages of disease, 
rise in rebellion against them. Banish the 
belief that you can possibly entertain a single 
intruding pain, which cannot be ruled out by 
the might of Mind, and in this way you can 
prevent the development of pain in the body. 
No law of God hinders this result. It is 
error to suffer for aught but your own sins. 
Christ, or Truth, will destroy all other sup- 
posed suffering, and'real suffering for your 
own sins will cease in proportion as the sin 
ceases.”—S, & H. 391: 7-16. 


Three vital errors stand out in the above, 
whether mind is written with a capital “M” or 
with a small “m.” The appeal being not to God, 
but to man to overcome, which we have shown 
by Scripture he is unable to perform, according to 
Paul, the apostle, who appealed to Jesus Christ for 
deliverance. 


“He draweth also the mighty with his power: he 
riseth up, and no man is sure of life.’—Jos 24: 22. 

“He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked 
shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no 
man prevail,”—I SAMUEL, 2:9. 

“And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for 


“SOME OBJECTIONS ANSWERED” 175 


in thy sight shall no man living be justified.’— 
PsauM 143: 2, 

“ There ss no man that hath power over the spirit to 
retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day 
of death, and there ts no discharge im that war; 
neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given 
to wt.”’—Eccy. 8:8. 


_ It is not “Error to suffer for aught but your own 
sins.” That is a repudiation of the Gospel of Jesus 
Christ. He died for our sins. 


“Who hath believed our report? and to whom 1s the 
arm of the Lord revealed? ... Surely he, hath 
borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we 
did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and af- 
fiucted. . . . All we, like sheep, have gone astray; 
we have turned everyone to his own way; and the 
Lord hath laid on him the swmiquity of us all.”’— 
TsatAH 53:1, 4, 6. 


Paul, in Scripture, directs us to bear burdens not 
our own. 


“Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law 


of Christ.’—Gat, 6:2. 
The law is fulfilled by Jesus Christ. 


“Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the 
prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.’— 
Marr. 5:17. 


Jesus Christ suffered the agony of the Cross for us. 


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God suffered the agony of giving His Only Be- 
gotten Son that we might believe and be saved. 


“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only 
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him 
should not perish, but have everlasting lfe.’— 
Joun 3:16. 


Only in Christ can we be released from all suffer- 
ing because of our sin. 


“ All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and 
no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; nesther 
knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he 
to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.’—Matv. 
Riis, 

“He that commutteth sin ts of the devil; for the 
devil sinneth from the beginning. For this pur- 
pose the Son of God was manifested, that he might 
destroy the works of the devil. 

“ Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; 
for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, 
because he is born of God. In this the children of 
God are manifest, and the children of the devil: 
whosoever doeth not righteousness, is not of God, 
neither he that loveth not his brother.’—I Joun 
3: 8-10. 

“But as many as received him, to them gave he power 
to become the sons of God, even to them that be- 
lieve on his name: Which were born, not of blood, 
nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, 
but of God.’—Joun 1: 12, 13. 

“Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily, verily, 
I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he 
cannot see the kingdom of God.”—Joun 3:3. 


“SOME OBJECTIONS ANSWERED” 177 


“ Mortal mind alone sentences itself.” 
ey EL oe 20% 


A direct contradiction of Scripture. 


“ And after all this the Lord smote him in his bowels 
with an incurable disease.’—II Curon, 21: 18. 

“Tf then I do that which I would not, I consent unto 

- the law, that it is good. Now then it ts no more I 
that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know 
that in me (that ts, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good 
thing: for to will ss present with me; but how to 
perform that which is good I find not.’—Rom. 
7: 16-18. 


Paul’s mind was to be cured of the thorn in his 
flesh. God’s mind was otherwise. Man’s mind 
does not alone prevail in disease any more than it 
prevails in other affairs of man’s life. 


“O Lord, I know that the way of man 1s not in him- 
self: it is not in man that walketh to direct his 
steps. O Lord, correct me, but with judgment; 


not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.’ — 
Jer. 10: 23-24. 


“Christian Science commands man _ to 
master the propensities,—” 
“The good man finally can overcome his 


fear of sin.”—S. & H. 405: 5, 18. 


Scripture teaches that the efforts of man to mas- 
ter his propensities have always been, and will be, 


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failures, without the Lord working in him to will 
and to do. 

There is one Saviour and one way. Jesus Christ 
is both. 


“And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call 
his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from 
their sins.’—Marrt, 1: 21. 

“ Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, 
and the life; no man. cometh unto the Father, but 
by me.’—Joun 14:6. 


The Commandments are a schoolmaster to lead us 
to Christ. 


“Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring 
us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith,” 
—Gat,. 3:24. 

“ And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh 
with its affections and lusts.’—GaAy,. 5: 24. 

“By the which wall we are sanctified through the of- 
fering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.’— 
Pep (LO. 10: 

“Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no 
flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law ts the 
knowledge of sin.’—Rom. 3:20, 


“The Bible contains the recipe for all 
healing. ‘The leaves of the tree were for 
the healing of the nations.’ Sin and sickness 
are both healed by the same Principle.”—S. 
& H. 406: 1-3. 


The tree of Life is the Lord Jesus Christ. 


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“ And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow 
every tree that 1s pleasant to the sight, and good for 
food; the tree of ltfe also in the midst of the gar- 
den, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.” — 
GEN) 2:9. 

“He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit — 
sasth unto the churches; To him that overcometh 
will I give to eat of the tree of life, which ts in the 

_ midst of the paradise of God.’—RkEv. 2:7. 

“ Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: 
on them whsch fell, seversty; ‘but toward thee, 
goodness, tf thou continue in hts goodness: other- 
wise thou also shalt be cut off. And they also, if 
they abide not still in unbelsef, shall be graffed im: 
for God is able to graff them in again.’—Rom. 
1A hie Pale Wats 


The healing is not by a principle, but by a Person, 
—Jesus Christ. 


“ For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal 
thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord; because they 
called thee an Outcast, saying, This ts Zion, whom 
no man seeketh after.’—JrEr. 30: 17. 

“Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his 
benefits: Who forgiweth all thine imquities; who 
healeth all thy diseases”’—PsauM 103: 2, 3. 

“And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their 
synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the king- 
dom, and healing all manner of sickness and all 
manner of disease among the people.’—Matv. 
4:23, 


“ Mortal mind is ignorant of itself,—igno- 


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rant of the errors it includes and of their 
effects.’—S. & H. 408: 30-32. 


The spirit that is in man knows of the things 
of man. 


“ For what man knoweth the things of man, save the 
spirit of man which is in him? even so the things 
of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.”— 
T Cone ul 


“very trial of our faith in God makes 
us stronger. ‘The more difficult seems the 
material condition to be overcome by Spirit, 
the stronger should be our faith, and the 
purer our love. The Apostle John says: 
‘There is no fear in Love, but perfect Love 
casteth out fear. . . . He that feareth is not 
made perfect in Love.’ Here is a definite 
and inspired proclamation of Christian 
Science.”—S. & H. 410: 14-21. 


Our faith, to be in God, must first be in Jesus 
Christ His Only Begotten Son, also our love—the 
perfect love that casteth out fear. “God is love.” 
We can only have Him through the faith he gives 
us in Jesus Christ. We should pray for that faith. 
Faith in “ principle, soul, mind and spirit,” all of 
which is subordinate to God is not faith in Jesus 
Christ and His atoning blood. 

The apostle John writes, “ As he is, so are we in 
this world.” As honest persons, we must admit 
that if that is true it must be because God gave us 


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the righteousness of Jesus Christ. We know we 
do not have it of ourselves. 


“ Flerein ts our love made perfect, that we may have 
boldness in the day of judgment; because as he 1s, 
so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; 
but perfect love casteth out fear; because fear hath 
torment. He that feareth 1s not made perfect im 
love.’—I Joun 4:17, 18. 

“Grace be to you, and peace, from God the Father, 
and from our Lord Jesus Christ. Who gave him- 
self for our sins, that he might deliver us from this 
present evil world, according to the will of God 
and our Father: ... But though we, or an angel 
from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than 
that which we have preached unto you, let him be 
accursed.’—Gat, 1: 3, 4, 8. 


This is ‘a definite and inspired proclamation ” 
of Jesus Christ, not of Christian Science. 


“ Argue at first mentally, not audibly, that 
the patient has no disease, and conform the 
argument so as to destroy the evidence of 


discase, —-9..'& E412: 20-23, 


What kind of evidence is it that proves a disease 
that does not exist, and how can such evidence be 
destroyed if it is no evidence? 

It seems unnecessary to turn to the Bible to cor- 
rect such a statement, but we prefer to bring for- 
ward the Scripture. 

There is no account given in Scripture that we 


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can find of healing by mind overcoming matter. 
All healing in Scripture, that we find, comes from 
God, either directly or as a special gift to His fol- 
lowers. An incurable disease mentioned, proclaims 
the truth that the mind of man is incapable of over- 
coming “ evidence of disease.” 


“Then he called his twelve disciples together, and 
gave them power and authority over all devils, and 
to cure diseases. ... And they departed, and went 
through the towns, preaching the gospel, and heal- 
ing everywhere. ... And the people, when they 
knew it, followed him: and he received them, and 
spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed 
themthat had need of healing.’—Luxe 9:1, 6, 11. 

“ For to one is given, by the Spirst, the word of wis- 
dom; to another the word of knowledge, by the 
same Spirit; to another fatth, by the same Spuit; 
to another the gifts of healing, by the same Spirit.” 
Cop 12 8,09; 

“ And after all this the Lord smote him in lis bowels 
with an incurable disease.”—II Curon, 21: 18. 


“Disease should not appear real to the 
physician, since it is demonstrable that the 
way to cure the patient is to make disease 
unreal to him. To do this, the physician 
must understand the unreality of disease in 
Science.”—S,. & H. 417: 21-26. 


Why is it, that if disease is unreal, it becomes 
necessary to make disease unreal, since it is already 
so according to Christian Science? You can find 


“SOME OBJECTIONS ANSWERED” 183 


no such attempts to present real as unreal in Scrip- 
ture, which is “ Yes” and “ No”’ in its logic. 


“For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our con- 
science, that in swmplicity and godly sincerity, not 
with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we 
have had our conversation in the world, and more 
abundantly to you-ward.’—II Cor. 1: 12. 

“ But I fear, lest by any means as the serpent bequiled 
Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be 
corrupted from the simplicity that ts in Chnist.’— 
Por 33! 


“When Christ changes a belief of sin or 
of sickness into a better belief, then belief 
melts into spiritual understanding, and sin, 
disease, and death disappear. Christ, Truth, 
gives mortals temporary food and clothing 
until the material, transformed with the 
ideal, disappears, and man is clothed and fed 
spiritually. St. Paul says, ‘ Work out your 
own salvation with fear and trembling: 
Jesus said, ‘Fear not, little flock; for it is 
your Father’s good pleasure to give you the 
kingdom.’ This truth is Christian Science. 

“Christian Scientists, be a law to your- 
selves that mental malpractice cannot harm 
you either when asleep or when awake.”’— 


S. & H. 442: 20-32. 
The only way that sin disappears is by a new birth. 
“ Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for 


his seed remaineth in lim: and he cannot sin, be- 
cause he is born of God.’—I Joun 3:9. 


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The Spirit of God—the Holy Ghost—convicts and 
judges the world. If we are born again and pos- 
sess thereby the Holy Ghost, we cannot be con- 
demned and are, therefore, without the sin that is 
condemned, and have the Comforter, whom Christ 
Jesus sent to His Church telling the Christian that 
there is now no condemnation for him. ‘The sin- 
lessness of Jesus is made his own! His sins are 
nailed to the Cross of Christ, and as Christ is, so is 
the Christian in this world. 


“ Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, 
to live after the flesh.’—Rom. 8: 12. 

“And I will pray the Father, and he shall gwe you 
another Comforter, that he may abide with you for 
ever; Even the Spirst of truth; whom the world 
cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither 
knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth 
with you, and shall be in you.’—Joun 14: 16, 17. 

“ Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was 
against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out 
of the way, nailing it to is cross.’—Cot,. 2: 14. 


If there are no ordinances against one who abides 
in Christ he cannot sin against them. 


“ Herewm is our love made perfect, that we may have 
boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, 
so are we in this world.’—I Joun 4:17. 

“As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of 


maliciousness, but as the servants of God.’— 
IPS TER 2 LO: 


“SOME OBJECTIONS ANSWERED ” 


“When the discoverer of Christian Sci- 
ence is consulted by her followers as to the 
propriety, advantage, and consistency of sys- 
tematic medical study, she tries to show them 
that under ordinary circumstances a resort 
to faith in corporeal means tends to deter 
those, who make such a compromise, from 
entire confidence in omnipotent Mind as 
really possessing all power. While a course 
of medical study is at times severely con- 
demned by some Scientists, she feels, as she 
always has felt, that all are privileged to 
work out their own salvation according to 
their light, and that our motto should be the 
Master’s counsel, ‘ Judge not, that ye be not 
judged.’ 

“Tf patients fail to experience the healing 
power of Christian Science, and think they 
can be benefited by certain ordinary physical 
methods of medical treatment, then the 
Mind-physician should give up such cases, 
and leave invalids free to resort to whatever 
other systems they fancy will afford relief. 
Thus such invalids may learn the value of 
the apostolic precept: ‘ Reprove, rebuke, ex- 
hort with all longsuffering and doctrine.’ If 
the sick find these material expedients un- 
satisfactory, and they receive no help from 
them, these very failures may open their 
blind eyes. In some way, sooner or later, 
all must rise superior to materiality, and 
suffering is oft the divine agent in this eleva- 
tion. * All things work together for good to 
them that love God,’ is the dictum of Scrip- 
ture.’—S. & H. 443 :1-22; 444: 1-6. 


185 


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Here S. & H. claims discovery of Christian Science, 
which means, of course, that none have gone before 
in its theories. We will not discuss this question- 
able statement as to its priority, but refer to it in 
another way, namely, if Christian Science does not 
conform to Scripture, as so far we have shown, its 
discovery was from outside of God’s word, and 
therefore, not of it. 

Christian Scientists are taught here to “ work 
out their own salvation with fear and trembling,” 
adding, ‘‘ Christian Scientists, be a law unto 
yourselves.” | 

The verse following the quotation from Philip- 
pians should also have been given in order that 
the whole truth should be known. We quote the 
verses: 


“Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, 
not as nm my presence only, but now much more in 
my absence, work out your own salvation with fear 
and trembling: For tt is God which worketh in you 
both to will and to do of his good pleasure.”— 
Parr (02 13) 


The verses combined forbid the theories ad- 
vanced by S. & H. from being called Scriptural, or 
that which Jesus referred to as the kingdom. 


“This, then, is the message which we have heard of 
him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in 
him ts no darkness at all.’—I Joun 1:5. 


“SOME OBJECTIONS ANSWERED” 187 


If we rely on our own ideals we may go wrong 
unless those ideals are formed with, and in the 
light of, Jesus Christ. 

The word “ Christian,” in its proper use, implies 
belief in Jesus as the Christ of God. | 

“Christian Science’? denies this truth. (See 
page 332 and page 361 of S. & H.) 

You cannot sever the vine and retain its life; nor 
can you have two separate ways, one mortal and 
the other spiritual, leading in different directions, 
and call it “the way”; neither can you have part 
error and part truth combined, and call it the truth. 


“ Jesus satth unto him, I am the way, the truth, and 
the life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by 
me.’—JOHN 14:6, 


You cannot call God spirit, soul, mind, and be His, 
because you call Him by names of principalities, 
that are subject to Him while you deny His Son, 
the only way by which you can come to the Father, 
according to the Scripture last quoted. 


“Christian Science silences human will. | 

“The human will which maketh and 
worketh a lie, hiding the divine Principle of 
harmony, is destructive to health, and is the 
cause of disease rather than its cure.”—S. & 
H. 445: 19, 24-26. 


In platform nine of S. & H., Jesus is said to be 
human. The above, from page 445 of S. & H., 


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claims to silence human will. What shall we think 
of these statements taken together? 

The human will is ordained by God to perform a 
part in the salvation of men. 


“ For tt is God which worketh in you both to will and 
to do of his good pleasure.’—Puit, 2: 13. 


There is to come a time when regenerated man 
wills to do right by believing in the Son of God, 
that is when the prayer is answered, “ Thy kingdom 
come, thy will be done.” 


“Thy people shall be willing n the day of thy power, 
in the beauties of holiness, from the womb of the 
morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.’— 
Psaum 110: 3. 


“ There is a large class of thinkers whose 
bigotry and conceit twist every fact to suit 
themselves. ‘Their creed teaches belief in a 
mysterious, supernatural God, and in a nat- 


ural, all-powerful devil.”—S. & H. 450: 1-4. 


If S. & H. has found such a class of thinkers, we 
deem this a suitable occasion in which to set forth 
the Gospel of Jesus Christ in a few simple words: 


“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only 
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him 
should not perish, but have everlasting life.’— 
Joun 3:16. 


God’s love for the world existed when He created 


“SOME OBJECTIONS ANSWERED” 189 


man who makes up the world. It was, therefore, 
His plan with His love to give His Only Begotten 
Son to redeem man, whom He had created. 

In due time the Son came in the Father’s chosen 
way, and according to His will. The Son, who 
became the Redemeer, by paying the price, made no 
conditions for the redemption on the part of man, 
except to receive the gift of the Father. The place 
in which man is to receive the gift is faith in believ- 
ing also the gift of God. No one can truthfully say 
that there is either bigotry or conceit in this work 
of the Father; neither is the devil powerful enough 
to prevent that which the grace of God has ac- 
complished so far in His plan, or that which He 
will complete; for the work was finished on the 
Cross of Jesus Christ and He is now at the right 
hand of His Father in heaven to give gifts unto 
man that they may, according to the will of our 
Father in heaven, make manifest the completed 
work, 


“ But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall 
not live by bread alone, but by every word that pro- 
ceedeth out of the mouth of God.”—Marr, 4:4. 

“For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he 
shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.’—Jos 
19925: 

“ Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I 
will help thee, saith the Lord, and thy Redeemer, 
the Holy One of Israel.’—Isatau 41: 14. 


“ And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call 


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his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from 
theer sins.’—Mart. 1:21. 


“To prove scientifically the error or un- 
reality of sin, you must first see the claim 
of sin, and then destroy it. Whereas, to 
prove scientifically the error or unreality of 
disease, you must mentally unsee the dis- 
ease; then you will not feel it, and it is de- 


stroyed.”—S. & H. 461 :26-30, 


That God would have given His Only Begotten Son 
to save men from perishing, had there been no real- 
ity of sin, is unbelievable, unspiritual. 


“ And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call 
his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from 
their sins.’—Marr, 1:21, 


Man disobeyed and came under sentence of death. 
God placed His Only Begotten Son in the place of 
man to suffer the penalty as man’s Redeemer. He 
paid the price and became man’s Redeemer. 

To have had no reality in sin would be to have no 
reality in Jesus Christ. 


“Thus saith the Lord, the King of Israel, and hs 
redeemer the Lord of Hosts; I am the fist, and 
I am the last; and besides me there is no God.’— 
IsaAIAH 44: 6. 


The Lord God sent an incurable disease. 


“ And after all this the Lord smote him in his bowels 
with an incurable disease.’—II Curon. 21: 18. 


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RECAPITULATION 


OLY Scripture states that God is a person. 
The definition of person is, a particular 
individual, man or woman. | 


“God, who at sundry times, and in divers manners 
spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 
hath in these last days spoken unto us by hts Son, 
whom he hath appointed hewr of all things, by whom 
also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness 
of his glory, and the express image of his person, 
and upholding all things by the word of his power, 
when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down 
on the right hand of the Majesty on high,’—HEs. 
bp Nas 

“But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O 
Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not; 
for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy 
name: thou art mine. ... For I am the Lord thy 
God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave 
Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. 
... 1, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there 
¢s no saviour. I have declared, and have saved, and 
I have shewed, when there was no strange God 
among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith 
the Lord, that I am God,’—Isatau 43:1, 3, 11, 12. 

“To whom ye forgive anything, I forgive also: for if 


191 


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I forgave anything, to whom I forgave st, for your 
sakes forgave I it m the person of Christ.’—Il 
Cor. 2: 10. 


These Scripture quotations confirm the truth that 
God and our Saviour are one. No such question 
as, “ What is God?” sounds well to a believer in 
God. God is a person with many names for His 
person, but the writer finds among them neither 
soul, spirit, or principle. God is indeed a “ Spirit,” 
but not spirit. 

Yet we have this, as part of the teaching of 
Mrs. Eddy: 


““Question—What is God?” 

“ Answer—God is incorporeal, divine, su- 
preme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, 
Life, Truth, Love.”—S. & H. 465: 8-10. 

“The term souls or spirits is as improper 
as the term gods. Soul or Spirit signifies 
Deity and nothing else. There is no finite 
soul nor spirit. Soul or Spirit means only 


one Mind, and cannot be rendered in the 
plural."—-S. & H. 466: 19-23. 


The natural man who, unborn of God, reasons 
that by right from creation he has God, because he 
has a soul, and therefore inherits eternal life, is 
taking to himself a false hope. 


“That they might set their hope in God and not for- 
get the words of God, but keep his commandments: 


RECAPITULATION 193 


. . . Because they belseved not in God, and trusted 
not in his salvation.’—Psaum 78:7, 22. 


There is a soul of man that is not deity. 


“ Fle that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: 
but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.” 
—Prov. 15: 32, 


- Man could not make an atonement to God for 
God’s soul. 


“ And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, ... The 
rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give 
less, than half a shekel, when they gwe an offering 
unto the Lord, to make an atonement for your 
souls.’—F,xopus 30:11, 15. 


Therefore, “men’s souls’’ are mentioned in the 
above from Exodus. 


“For what ts a man profited, if he shall gain the 
whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall 
a man give in exchange for his soul? ”—Marr. 


1o026, 

Deity can never be lost or exchanged. 

“Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu, the son of 
Barachel, the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram; 
against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justs- 


fied himself, rather than God.’—Jos 32:2. 


Job’s soul was not deity, according to Scripture. 


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“ Answer—The first demand of this Sci- 
ence is, ‘ Thou shalt have no other Gods 
before me.’ This me is Spirit.”—S. & H. 
467 : 3-4. 


. The first commandment from God is, “‘ Thou shalt 
have no other gods before me.’’ Previous to the 
command there are two verses of Scripture that 
make it definite who the “ me ” is. 


“And God spake all these words, saymg, I am the 
Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the 
land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 

“Thou shalt have no other Gods before me.’— 
EXODUSIZOs Le 203. 


He is the “‘ Lord God,” and God spake it. It is 
not spirit, God is a Spirit (in His person). Man 
has not the Spirit of God (The Holy Ghost) unless 
he be born again. 

Caleb had a different spirit from those associated 
with him. 


“Surely they shall not see the land which I sware 
unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that 
provoked me see tt: But my servant Caleb, because 
he had another spirit with him, and hath followed 
me fully, him will I bring into the land wheresnto 
he went; and his seed shall possess 1t.’—Nuvum. 
14:23, 24. 


There is a spirit of man and a spirit of angels, also 
the Spirit of God. 


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“God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must 
worship him in spirst and tn truth.’—Joun 4: 24, 
“The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel, 
saith the Lord, which stretcheth forth the heavens, 
and layeth the foundation of the earth and formeth 
the spwrit of man within him.’—Zecu. 12:1. 

“And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels 
spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.’—HEs. 
Es: 


Notice that Jesus mentions God as a spirit, and that 
he also mentions true worshipers. Can it be pos- 
sible that they who worship Him have just the same 
one Spirit as He whom they worship ?—whether 
the natural man or the spiritual man? 


“ But the natural man receweth not the things of the 
Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: 
neither can he know them, because they are spurit- 
ually discerned.”—I Cor. 2: 14. 

“And so it is written, The first man Adam was made 
a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening 
spirit. 

“ Howbeit that was not first whtch is spiritual, 
but that which is natural; and afterward that which 
is spuritual. 

“ The first man 1s of the earth, earthy: the second 
man is the Lord from heaven.’—I Cor. 15: 45-47, 


“ Science reveals Spirit, Soul, as not in the 
body, and God as not in man but as reflected 
by man. The greater cannot be in the les- 
ser.”’—S. & H. 467: 17-19. 


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These statements are directly contrary to Scripture. 


“ The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel, saith 
the Lord, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and 
layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the 
sporst of man within him.’—Zxrcw, 12:1. 


Thus we find man’s spirit within him. 
The Lord did not deem it improper to refer in 
terms to the souls of men. 


“For I will not contend forever, neither will I be 
always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, 
and the souls which I have made.”—Isatau 57: 16, 


He also mentions that He dwells with him who 
is of a contrite and human spirit. 


“ For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabit- 
eth eternity, whose name ts Holy; I dwell im the 
high and holy place, with him also that 1s of a con- 
trite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit cf the 
humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite 
ones.’—IsAIAH 57:15. 


Scripture mentions both soul and souls as needing 
an atonement. 

Through the ‘ Eternal Spirit’ (not man’s spirit), 
the Atonement was made. ‘This spirit was with- 
out spot. 


“ For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes 
of an heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifieth to the 


RECAPITULATION 197 


purifying of the flesh; how much more shall the 
blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit 
offered himself without spot to God, purge your 
conscience from dead works to serve the living 
God? ”—Hep. 9: 13, 14. 

“Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of 
flesh and blood, he also himself ltkewtse took part 
of the same; that through death he might destroy 
him that hath the power of death, that 1s, the 
devil.” —Hep, 2:14, 


“Because Soul is immortal, Soul cannot 
sin, for sin is not the eternal verity of 
being.” 

“ Answer—There is no life, truth, intelli- 
gence, nor substance in matter. All is infi- 
nite Mind and its infinite manifestation for 
God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth.” 
—S. & H. 468: 6-12. 


According to Scripture, Jesus Christ came to 
save His people from their sins. 


“And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shali call 
his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from 
their sins.’—Mart. 1:21. 


By the commandments, which are the law, is the 
knowledge of sin. 


“ Therefore by the deeds of the law there shail no 
flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the 
knowledge of sin.’—Rom., 3:20. 


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We deceive ourselves if we say we have no sin. 


“Tf we say that we have fellowship with him, and 
walk #n darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But 
if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have 
fellowship one with anothér, and the blood of Jesus 
Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. If we say 
that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the 
truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he ss 
faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to 
cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that 
we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his 
word is not in us.’—I JouHN 1: 6-10. 


Jesus Christ became a partaker of flesh and blood, 
likewise as man is a partaker of the same. ‘The 
Word was made flesh. 


“Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of 
flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part 
of the same; that through death he might destroy 
him that hath the power of death, that is, the 
devil.” —Hers. 2: 14. 

“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, 
(and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only 
begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”— 
Joun 1:14. 


“Divine Science explains the abstract 
statement that there is one Mind by the fol- 
lowing self-evident proposition: If God, or 
good, is real, then evil, the unlikeness of 
God, is unreal. And evil can only seem to 
be real by giving reality to the unreal. The 


RECAPITULATION 199 


children of God have but one Mind. How 
can good lapse into evil, when God, the Mind 
of man, never sins? The standard of per- 
fection was originally God and man. Has 
God taken down His own standard, and has 
man fallen? 

“God is the creator of man, and, the di- 
vine Principle of man remaining perfect, the 
divine idea or reflection, man, remains per- 


fect.".—-S. & H. 470: 12-21. 


Why should not the same reasoning follow in 
other calculations? For instance: if one hundred 
cents ($1.00) be real, then one cent, the unlikeness 
of one dollar, is unreal! Scripture, the Word of 
God, makes plain in words the error of the reason- 
ing of 8. & H. 


“T form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, 
and create evil. I the Lord do all these things.’— 
IsalaAH 45:7, 

“ Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people 
not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the 
Lord hath not done it?’”—Amos 3: 6. 


How can good lapse into evil? The question of 
5. & H. is easily answered by the statement of our 
Saviour. 


“But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid 
them not, to come unto me; for of such is the king- 
dom of heaven.”—Matr, 19: 14. 


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Man is not always a little child, and in every life 
there is need of prayer. 


“ And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from 
evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and 
the glory, for ever. Amen.’—Matrt. 6:13. 


The standard of perfection was never other than 
God. 

Man is blessed if he hunger and thirst after 
righteousness, not that he possesses righteousness, 
but rather, if he hnnger after it he shall be filled. 
God, the only righteous One, fills the man who 
hungers for Him. 


“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which 
is in heaven is perfect.’—Marr., 5: 48. 


There would have been no occasion for the Saviour 
saying this, had the standard of perfection been 
God and Man. Man fell even from the standard 
in which God created him. 


“And when the woman saw that the tree was good 
for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and 
a tree to be destred to make one wise, she took of 
the fruit thereof, and did eat; and gave also unto 
her husband with her, and he did eat.’—GEn. 3:6. 


We have the mind of the new man if we are born 
again, and only then. 


“ Having abolished in hts flesh the enmity, even the 


RECAPITULATION 201 


law of commandments contatned in ordimances; for 
to make in himself of twain one new man, so 
making peace; . .. For through him we both have 
access by one Spirit unto the Father’’—Epu. 
Bolss iki 

“For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are 
strong: and thts also we wish, even your perfec- 
tion.’—IT Cor. 13:9. 


“ Question—Are doctrines and creeds a 
benefit to man? 

“ Answer—The author subscribed to an 
orthodox creed in early youth, and tried to 
adhere to it until she caught the first gleam 
of that which interprets God as above mortal 
sense. This view rebuked human beliefs, 
and gave the spiritual import, expressed 
through Science, of all that proceeds from 
the divine Mind. Since then her highest creed 
has been divine Science, which, reduced to 
human apprehension, she has named Chris- 


tian Science.”—S. & H. 471: 22-31. 


- We give a portion of the Apostles’ Creed presum- 
ably the one referred to above. 

“TI believe in God the Father, maker of heaven 
and earth, and in Jesus Christ his only begotten 
Son.” S. & H. does not believe in Jesus Christ as 
the Only Begotten Son. (See pages 332 and 473 
of S.& H.) The Scripture affirms that the Word 
was God and that the Word was made flesh and 
dwelt among us. This was the new man Christ 
Jesus, whom we, as Christians, put on. 


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“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was 
with God, and the Word was God. The same was 
in the beginning with God. ... And the Word 
was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we be- 
held his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of 
the Father,) full of grace and truth.’—JoHN 
Pt 2514. 

“ Having abolished in his flesh, the enmity, even the 
law of commandmenst, contained in ordinances; 
for to make sn himself of twaim one new man, so 
making peace.’—Epu. 2:15. 

“ And that ye put on the new man, which after God 
ss created in righteousness and true holiness.’— 
Epu. 4: 24. 

“ Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and 
foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by 
wicked hands, have crucified and slain: Whom God 
hath ratsed up, having loosed the pains of death: 
because it was not possible that he should be holden 
of it.’—Acts 2: 23, 24. 


It is not a human belief to believe in Jesus Christ. 


“ And Simon Peter answered, and sasd, Thou art the 
Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus an- 
swered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon 
Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed tt 
unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.’— 
Mart. 16: 16-17. 


“The Science of Mind disposes of all evil. 
Truth, God, is not the Father of Error. 
Sin, sickness and death are to be classified 
as effects of error. Christ came to destroy 
the belief of Sin.” | 


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“ Jesus is the name of the man who, more 
than all other men, has presented Christ the 
true idea of God, healing the sick and the 
sinning and destroying the power of death. 
Jesus is the human man, and Christ is the 
divine idea; hence the duality of Jesus the 
Christ.”—S. & H. 473: 3-7, 12-17. 


The disposal of evil is with God, not with Chris- 
tian Science. 


“Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when 
the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about? 
. .. But God will redeem my soul from the power 
of the grave; for he shall receiwwe me. Selah.’— 
Psaum 49:5, 15. 

“T form the light and create darkness; I make peace 
and create evil. I the Lord do all these things.’”— 
Isatau 45:7, 

“And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek 
them not: for, behold, I will brong evil upon all 
flesh, saith the Lord; but thy life will I give unto 
thee for a prey mall places whither thou goest.’— 
Jer. 45: 5. 

“T find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil 
as present with me. ...O wretched man that I 
am! who shall delwer me from the body of this 
death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our 
Lord. So then, with the mind I myself serve the 
law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.’— 
Romy 7:21, 24,25. 


The law establishes in man the belief in sin. 


“Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no 


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flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law ts the 
knowledge of sin.’—Rom., 3: 20. 


Christ Jesus came to deliver from sin (evil). 


“ Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the 
prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth 
pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from 
the law, til all be fulfilled.’—Matt. 5:17, 18. 

“ And he asked for a writing table, and wrote, saying, 
His name is John. And they marvelled all... . 
And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy 
Ghost, and prophesied, saying, Blessed be the Lord 
God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his 
people.’—LwuKE 1:63, 67, 68. 

“And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call 
hts name Jesus: for he shall save his people from 
their sins.’—Marr. 1: 21. 


It is Jesus who delivers from sin. No human man 
could deliver his fellow man, only the God-man 
could. 


“Will the Lord be pleased wth thousands of rams, or 
with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my 
first born for my transgression, the fruit of my 
body for the sin of my soul?”—Micau 6: 7. 

“Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with 
him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that 
henceforth we should not serve sin.’—Rom. 6:6. 

“For the gifts and calling of God are without re- 
pentance.”—Rom. 11: 29. 


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“Man is idea, the image, of Love; he is 
not physique. He is the compound idea of 
God, including all right ideas; the generic 
term for all that reflects God’s image and 
likeness.” —S. & H. 475: 13-16. 


We give the Scriptural definition of man. 


“The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go 
astray as soon as they be born, speaking les.’— 
Psaum 58: 3. 

“ Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Ex- 
cept a man be born of water and of the spirit, he 
cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 

“That which is born of the flesh ss flesh; and 
that which 1s born of the Spirit is spirst. 

“ Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be 
born again. 

“The wind bloweth where st listeth, and thou 
hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence 
it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is everyone that 
ts born of the Spirst.”-—Joun 3: 5-8. 

* But as many as received him, to them gave he power 
to become the sons of God, even to them that believe 
on his name: 

“Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will 
of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.’— 
Joun 1:12, 13. 

“Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and 
full of trouble. 

“ He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: 
he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. . . 

“But man dteth, and wasteth away: yea, man 
gweth up the ghost and where is he?”—Jos 
14:1, 2, 10. 


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Scripture states that man was created in God’s 
image, not that he “reflects God’s image.” 


“ So God created man in his own image, tn the image 
of God created he him; male and female created he 
them.’—GEN. 1:27. 


“ Question—What are body and soul? 
_ “ Answer—Identity is the reflection of 
Spirit, the reflection in multifarious forms 
of the living Principle, Love. Soul is the 
substance, Life, and intelligence of man, 
which is individualized, but not in matter. 
Soul can never reflect anything inferior to 


Spirit.’—S. & H. 477: 19-24. 


A standard dictionary gives the following defini- 
tion of the word “ reflected’: “ To return or throw 
off,” or “ To send back rays as of light or heat.” 

Is there any creation in such a process? Does a 
mirror give back anything like a created being, or 
does it only reflect the likeness of the person stand- 
ing before it? No creation of another being could 
take place in this way. Does a picture form a soul 
or life, a mind or substance of person as a created 
being in the likeness of the person before the mir- 
ror? It is nothing but a reflection of personage, 
not a creation of anything new and of substance. 

Creating man is entirely different from reflect- 
ing man. 


“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the 


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ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of 
life; and man became a living soul.’—GEN. 2:7. 


Man, to be in the image of God the Father, God 
the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, must be an active 
personage. He must have hands and feet; he must 
reason, must love, must hate, must suffer, must re- 
joice. All these are attributes of God who visited 
‘us in the Person of Jesus Christ. 


“ And his father Zachartas was filled with the Holy 
Ghost, and prophesied, saying.” —LUuKE 1:67. 


“God said let us make man.” ‘The Triune God 
was the Creator. 


“ Question—Have Christian Scientists any 
religious creed? 

“ Answer—They have not, if by that term 
is meant doctrinal beliefs. The following is 
a brief exposition of the important points, 
or religious tenets, of Christian Science.”— 


S, & H. 496: 28-31, 497: 1, 2. 


Dictionaries give the following definition of 
“Creed”: “A formal summary of religious be- 
lief”; “‘ Doctrines,” “ Beliefs.” $. & H. gives its 
“ Exposition ” in six parts. 


“As adherents of Truth, we take the in- 
spired Word of the Bible, as our sufficient 
guide to eternal Life.”—S, & H. 497: 3-4. 


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We leave to the reader to judge, after the com- 
parisons so far made, whether S. & H. has taken 
“the inspired word of the Bible as a sufficient 
guide.” 


“We acknowledge and adore one supreme 
and infinite God. We acknowledge His Son, 
one Christ; the Holy Ghost or divine Com- 


forter; and man in God’s image and like- 
ness.” —S, & H. 497: 5-8. 


But, referring back to statements of S. & H., the 
reader will recall that S. & H. does not consider 
“ Christ a proper synonym for Jesus,” (see page 
333 of S. & H.). On the same page we have the 
statement that the advent of Jesus “ marked the 
first century era.” Yet Christ is without beginning 
of years, or end of days. 

Let us turn to the inspired word of the Bible, 
and determine, in view of the above exposition of 
S. & H., whether it acknowledges one supreme and 
infinite God. 


“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was 
with God, and the Word was God. The same was 
in the beginning with God. ... And the Word 
was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we be- 
held his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of 
the Father,) full of grace and truth:’—JoHN 
Lisl) 244. 


Here it is stated that Jesus Christ, the One who 


RECAPITULATION 209 


dwelt among us, in the flesh, was the Word made 
flesh, and that the Word was God, and that He 
was in the beginning with God. 

These statements of Scripture are far from 
making truth of the statement of S. & H., in sepa- 
rating from an eternal existence, Jesus from Christ, 
or of making Christ the One with the Father, and 
Jesus described as the beginning of an era. The 
Bible gives a verification again by the Book of 
Revelation. 


“ And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And 
he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, 
Fear not; I am the first and the last: I am he that 
liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for- 
ever more, Amen; and have the keys of hell and 
of death.’—Rryv. 1:17, 18. 

“And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let 
him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is 
athirst, come: and whosoever will, let him take of 
the water of life freely.... He which testifieth 
these things saith, Surely I come quickly: Amen. 
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.’—Rekv. 22:17, 20. 

“For I delivered unto you first of all that which I 
also recewed, how that Christ died for our sins, 
according to the scriptures ; and that he was buried, 
and that he rose again the third day according to 
the scroptures: and that he was seen of Cephas, then 
of the twelve.’—I Cor. 15: 3-5, 


“We acknowledge God’s forgiveness of 
sin in the destruction of sin and the spiritual 
understanding that casts out evil as unreal. 


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But the belief in sin is punished, so long as 
the belief lasts.’-—S, & H, 497: 9-12, 


God’s forgiveness of sin is by repentance and 
faith in His Son Jesus Christ—the Way, the Truth 
and the Life. Repentance comes through the 
realization of sin. The Ten Commandments teach 
men that they sin. 


“ Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no 
flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the 
knowledge of sin.’—Rom. 3:20. 

“Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bréng 
us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.” 
—GaL, 3:24, 

“Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of 
the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we 
have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be 
justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the 
works of the law: for by the works of the law shall 
no flesh be justified.’—Gat, 2: 16. 


Therefore, it is by the knowledge of the reality of 
sin that we turn to a Saviour and, by the grace of 
God, are saved. 


“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that 
not of yourselves; it és the gtft of God,’—Epu. 
Bio 

“But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have 
mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call 


the righteous, but sinners to repentance.’—Matt. 
Bi Ds 


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“We acknowledge Jesus’ atonement as the 
evidence of divine, efficacious Love, unfold- 
ing man’s unity with God through Christ 
Jesus the Way-shower ; and we acknowledge 
that man is saved through Christ, through 
Truth, Life, and Love, as demonstrated by 
the Galilean Prophet in healing the sick 
and overcoming sin and death.’—S. & H. 
497 : 12-18. 


The atonement, as described by S. & H., lacks 
the depths of reality described in Scripture. It was 
not only evidence of divine love—it was divine 
Love. It did not unfold man’s unity with God, 
but did make that unity, which otherwise would 


not have existed: 
The Old Covenant: 


“And God spake all these words, saying, I am the 
Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the 
‘land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou 
shalt have no other Gods before me.’—Exopus 
20: 1-3. 

“And Moses took half of the blood, and put it sn 
basins; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the 
altar. 

“And he took the book of the covenant and read 
in the audience of the people: and they said, All 
that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obeds- 
ent,’ xopus 24:76, (7. 

“Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu, the son of 
Barachel, the Buzste, of the kindred of Ram: 
against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justi- 
fied himself rather than God.”’—Jos 32: 2. 


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“The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of 
the Almighty hath given me life. . . . Behold, I am 
according to thy wish in God’s stead; I also am 
formed out of the clay.’—Jos 33:4, 6. 


The New Covenant: 


“And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilder- 
ness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 
That whosoever believeth in him should not perssh, 
but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, 
that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever 
believeth in him should not perish, but have ever- 
lasting life.’—Joun 3: 14-16. 

“Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the 
law of commandments contained tn ordinances; for 
to make m himself of twain one new man, so 
making peace.’—Epu. 2:15. 

“ Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will 
make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and 
with the House of Judah.’—Jer. 31:31. 

“And their sins and miquities will I remember no 
more. Now where remission of these ts, there is no 
more offering for sin.’—Hes. 10:17, 18. 


“We acknowledge that the crucifixion of 
Jesus and His resurrection serve to uplift 
faith to understand eternal Life, even the 
allness of Soul, Spirit, and the nothingness 
of matter.”’—S. & H. 497: 20-23. 


The crucifixion of Jesus Christ cannot be legiti- 
mately used to bolster the idea of the nothingness 
of matter, nor can it be used simply and alone to 


RECAPITULATION 213 


understand life. It is giving life, and the natural 
body is raised according to Scripture by the resur- 
rection of Jesus Christ. 


“TI am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I 
am alive forever more, Amen; and have the keys 
of hell and of death.’—Rerv. 1: 18. 

“And though, after my skin, worms destroy this 
body, yet wn my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall 
see for myself and mine eyes shall behold, and not 


another; though my reins be consumed within me.” 
—Jos 19: 26, 27. 


Faith in the crucifixion and in the resurrection up- 
lifts man. Faith is the gift of God. 


“And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall 
never perish, netther shall any man pluck them out 
of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is 
greater than all; and no man ts able to pluck them 
out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are 
one.’—JoHN 10: 28-30. 

“ So then it ts not of him that willeth, nor of him. that 
runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.’—Rom. 
9:16. . 


“And we solemnly promise to watch and 
pray for that Mind to be in us which was 
also in Christ Jesus ; to do unto others as we 
would have them do unto us; and to be mer- 
ciful, just, and pure.”—S, & H. 497: 24-27, 


Surely it is good for men that they promise to 
watch and pray. But we can never have the mind 


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that was in Christ Jesus, until His mind has us, 
until we are born again, a new creature in Him. 

We can fulfill our duty to our fellows and to 
ourselves by having Christ Jesus. 


“For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he 
may imstruct him? But we have the mind of 
Christ.’—I Cor. 2: 16. 

“For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness 
to everyone that belteveth.’—Rom. 10: 4. 


VI 
CHENESIS; THE APOCALYPSE 


“And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto 
Jacob, by the name of God Almighty; but by My 
name Jehovah was I not known to them.—Exopus. 

“All things were made by Him; and without Him 
was not anything made that was made. In Him 
was life; and the life was the light of men——Joun. 


“Scientific interpretation of the Scrip- 
tures properly starts with the beginning of 
the Old Testament, chiefly because the spirit- 
ual import of the Word, in its earliest articu- 
lations, often seems so smothered by the 
immediate context as to require explication ; 
whereas the New Testament narratives are 
clearer and come nearer the heart. Jesus il- 
lumines them, showing the poverty of mortal 
existence, but richly recompensing human 
want and woe with spiritual gain.”—-S. & H. 


SO 129; 


Is there scientific interpretation in the way a little 
child comes to its parents? 


“ But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon 
at the judgment, than for you. And thou, Caper- 
naum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust 
down to hell,”’—Lwuxke 10: 14, 15. 


215 


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Part of the working out of his own salvation with 
fear and trembling by man, is the searching of 
Scripture. He can find the Gospel in the Old Testa- 
ment. Can we find in literature anything as beauti- 
ful and grand as the books of the Old Testament in 
their description of the creation of man, and his 
history which follows, and God’s covenants with 
him? 

Was Jesus showing the poverty of mortal exist- 
ence when, at His Father’s sending, He came that 
He might bring eternal life? 

Did He not illumine that existence when He 
directed attention to the fowls of the air, and the 
lilies of the field, and compared mortal existence 
with them? 


“Behold the fowls of the aw: for they sow not, 
netther do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet 
your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not 
much better than they? ... And why take ye 
thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the 
field, how they grow; they toil not neither do they 
spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon 


an all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.’— 
Marr. 6: 26, 28, 29. 


“ Spiritually followed, the book of Genesis 
is the history of the untrue image of God, 
named a sinful mortal. This deflection of 
being, rightly viewed, serves to suggest the 
proper reflection of God and the spiritual 
actuality of man, as given in the first chap- 


GENESIS; THE APOCALYPSE 217 


ter of Genesis. E'ven thus the crude forms 
of human thought take on higher symbols 
and significations, when scientifically Chris- 
tian views of the universe appear illumina- 
ting time with the glory of eternity.”—S, & 
H. 502: 9-17, 


When we consider that our Saviour quoted from 
the Book of Genesis, and other books of the Old 
Testament in spreading His Gospel of Love to men, 
and that the Scripture is inspired, we are bound to 
place Genesis, as well as the other books of the Old 
Testament, where they are to be exalted, far above 
any scientific measure S. & H. gives them. These 
Scriptures testify of Jesus Christ. 


“ Search the scrsptures; for in them ye think ye have 
eternal life: and they are they whtch testsfy of me.” 
—JouHN 5: 39, 


“Genesis 1:1. In the beginning God 
created the heaven and the earth. 

“The infinite has no beginning. ‘This 
word beginning is employed to signify the 
only—that is, the eternal verity and unity of 
God and man, including the universe. The 
creative Principle—Life, Truth, and Love— 
is God. The universe reflects God. ‘There 
is but one creator and one creation. This 
creation consists of the unfolding of spiritual 
ideas and their identities, which are em- 
braced in the infinite Mind and forever 
reflected. These ideas range from the in- 
finitesimal to infinity and the highest ideas 


218 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 


are the sons and daughters of God.”—S. & 
H. 502: 24-29, 503: 1-5. 

The word “ beginning,’ as used in John 1:1, re- 
lates to time,—the creation of heaven, and had its 
beginning in God, as related in Genesis. 


“In the beginning God created the heaven and the 
earth.’—GrEN. 1:1. 


The unity of God and man exists in Jesus Christ. 
He would not have prayed to have exist a unity 
that was already existing. 


“ And now I am no more in the world, but these are 
in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, 
keep through thine own name those whom thou hast 
given me, that they may be one, as we are.... 
Nestther pray I for these alone, but for them also 
which shall believe on me through their word; That 
they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and 
I in thee, that they also may be one m us: that the 


world may belseve that thou hast sent me.’—JOHN 
17:11, 20-21. 


After the statement that “in the beginning God 
created,’ we are informed by Scripture that God 
said, ‘‘ Let us make man in our image.” Father, 
Son and Holy Ghost are one. There is a second 
creation that is a spiritual creation—the first cre- 
ation born again. The new man is Christ Jesus the 
Lord from heaven. 


GENESIS; THE APOCALYPSE 219 


“The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second 
man ts the Lord from heaven.’—I Cor. 15:47. 


It is true that we live in God and have our being 
in Him, but that is not the oneness with God in 
Jesus Christ. 


“For in him we live, and move, and have our being; 
. as certain also of your own poets have said, For we 
are also hts offspring.’—Acts 17: 28. 


Scripture tells us that it was one of the native Greek 
poets who gave expression to this truth. The poet 
could have said as truthfully that the birds and the 
blossoms live in God and have their being in Him, 
but they are not one; they are different in many 
respects of their being. Not so are they who are 
one in Jesus Christ. 

S. & H., in the expressed belief that God and 
man co-exist (page 267 of S. & H.) with God, 
that there is only one mind, must of necessity 
deny the Scripture truth that there is a new birth, 
a second creation, that man may be born again. 
God made man in His own image with mind, 
spirit, soul, heart, will. And a breath was given 
him—the breath of life—so that in it rejoicing, 
he could love, obtain power to choose between 
good and evil, and other attributes which the Deity 
possesses. 

We have mentioned some attributes which exist 
in the Person of the One sinless man, Christ Jesus, 


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who nevertheless was tempted as we are, yet with- 
out sin. 3 


Minp—“ For they that say such things declare plainly 
that they seek a country. And truly if they had 
been mindful of that country from whence they 
came out, they night have had opportunity to 
have returned: But now they desire a better 
country, that ts, an heavenly: wherefore God is 
not ashamed to be called their God; for he hath 
prepared for them a city.’—Hes. 11: 14-16. 


Notice some of the attributes we have named as 
they occur here in Scripture. 


Minp—* And they put him in ward, that the mind of 
the Lord might be shewed them.’—Lev. 24:12. 
“And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what 
is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh in- 
tercesston for the saints according to the will of 

God,’—Roo. 8:27. 

“Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged 
down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they 
seek my life. 

“ But what saith the answer of God unto him? 
I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, 
who have not bowed the knee to the image of 
Baal.’—Rom. 11: 3-4. 


Wittr—“ And whatsoever shall seem good to thee, 
and to thy brethren, to do with the rest of the 
silver and the gold, that do after the will of your 
God.” —Ezra 7: 18. 

“Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will 


GENESIS; THE APOCALYPSE 221 


of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” 
Joun 1:13. 

“Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine 1s 
not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will 
do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether 
it be of God, or whether I speak of myself .’— 
Joun 7: 16-17. 


Sprrit—‘ And the earth was without form, and void; 
and darkness was upon the face of the deep. 
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of 
the waters.’—GEN, 1:2. 

“Searching what, or what manner of time the 
Spirit of Christ, which was in them did signify, 
when tt testified beforehand the sufferings of 
Christ, and the glory that should follow.’— 
PETER 11 

“ But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so 
be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if 
any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none 
of his.’—Rom., 8:9, 


Breatuo—“ And the Lord God formed man of the 
dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils 
the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” 
—GEN. 2:7. 

“By the breath of God frost és given: and the 
breadth of the waters is straitened.’—Joxs 37:10. 

“ By the word of the Lord were the heavens made: 
and all the host of them by the breath of his 
mouth.”—PsauM 33:6. 


REJorcinc-—“ For as a young man marrieth a virgin, 
so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bride- 


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groom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God 
rejoice over thee,’—IsataH 62: 5. 

“ And if so be that he find st, verily I say unto you, 
he rejoiceth more of that sheep than of the ninety 
and nine which went not astray. Even so tt is 
not the will of your Father which is in heaven, 
that one of these little ones should perish.”°— 
Marr. 18: 13-14, 

“Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for- 
ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.’— 
Psaum 119:111. 


LovE—“ Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he 
is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant 
and mercy with them that love him and keep hts 
commandments, to a thousand generations; ... 
And he will love thee, and bless thee, and mults- 
ply thee: he wll also bless the fruit of thy womb 
and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, 
and thine oil, the increase of thy kine and the 
flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware 
unto thy fathers to give thee.’—Drut. 7:9, 13. 

“ Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus 
knew that his hour was come that he should de- 
part out of this world unto the Father, having 
loved his own which were in the world, he loved 
them unto the end.’—Joun 13:1. 

“Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love 
me, he will keep my words: and my Father will 
love him, and we will come unto him, and make 
our abode with him.’—Joun 14: 23, 

“He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God 
is love.’—I Joun 4:8. 


Power TO CHoosE—“I call heaven and earth to 


GENESIS; THE APOCALYPSE 2238 


record this day against you, that I have set before 
you life and death, blessing and cursing: there- 
fore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may 
live.’—Dervt. 30: 19, 

“The God of this people of Israel, chose our fath- 
ers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as 
strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high 
arm brought he them out of it.’—Acts 13:17. 


Power To RutE—“ And he said, Thy name shall be 
called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince 
hast thou power with God and with men, and 
hast prevailed.’—GEN. 32: 28. 

“ And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us 
from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the 
power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.’— 
Marr. 6: 13. 

“But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy 
Ghost 1s come upon you: and ye shall be wit- 
nesses unto me, both in Jerusalem and in all 
Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost 
part of the earth.’—Acts 1:8. 


Although God is the first and the last, the begin- 
ning in Genesis is the beginning of the creation, 
commencing with the creation of the heavens and 
the earth. 


“T am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end- 
ing, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and 
which is to come, the Almighty.’—REv. 1:8. 


“The divine Principle and idea consti- 
tute spiritual harmony,—heaven and eter- 


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nity. In the universe of Truth, matter is 
unknown. No supposition of error enters 
there. Divine Science, the Word of God, 
saith to the darkness upon the face of error, 
‘God is All-in-all,’ and the light of ever- 
present Love illumines the universe.”—S. & 
H. 503 :9-15, 


The Scripture shows matter to be in the universe 
of truth. 


“Jesus said unto him, I am the way, and the truth, 
and the life; no man cometh unto the Father, but 
by me.’—Joun 14:6, 

“O the depth of the riches both of the wssdom and 
knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judg- 
ments, and his ways past finding out! For who 
hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath 
been his counsellor? ... For of him, and through 
him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory 
forever. Amen.’—Rom. 11: 33-34, 36. 


The perfect man Christ Jesus in His Person as 
the ‘Son of man,” without sin, was conceived 
by the Holy Ghost. The Word was made flesh 
and dwelt among us. He possessed the form 
that admitted His being tempted in all points 
as we are and yet without sin. We give the 
Scripture : 


“ The same was in the beginning with God. . . . And 
the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, 
(and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only 


GENESIS; THE APOCALYPSE 225 


begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”— 
Joun 1:2, 14. 

“And the angel answered and said unto her, The 
Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of 
the Highest shall overshadow thee; therefore also 
that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be 
called the Son of God.’—Luke 1:35. 

“For we have not an high priest which cannot be 
touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was 
-in all points tempted Ikke as we are, yet wthout 
sin.’ —Hes, 4:15, 


“ Genesis 1:3. ‘And God said, Let there 
be light; and there was light. 

“Immortal and divine Mind presents the 
idea of God: first, in light; second, in re- 
flection; third, in spiritual and immortal 
forms of beauty and goodness. But this 
mind creates no element nor symbol of dis- 
cord and decay. God creates neither erring 
thought, mortal life, mutable truth, nor 
variable love.”—S. & H. 503: 18-24. 


God is not termed Mind or Divine Mind in 
Scripture. The names of God are given in Scrip- 
ture, and above them all He has magnified His 
“ Word ’—the Word that was made flesh. 


“T will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise 
thy name for thy loving kindness and for thy 
truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all 
thy name.’—PsaLM 138: 2. 


God created light. He did not reflect it; He divided 


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it into day and night. Like His other creations, 
He called it good. 


“ And God saw the light, that it was good; and God 
divided the light from the darkness, 
“ And God called the light Day, and the darkness 
he called Night. And the evening and the mornsng 
were the first day.’—GEN, 1:4-5. 


“Genesis 1:7. ‘And God made the 
firmament, and divided the waters which 
were under the firmament from the waters 
which were above the firmament; and it 
was so.’ 

“ Spiritual understanding unfolds Mind, 
—Life, Truth, and Love,—demonstrates the 
divine sense, giving the spiritual proof of the 
universe in Christian Science.’—S. & H. 


USB 22-20, 


If the mind that is in man is unfolded there is 
unfolded some things besides truth and love; some 
thoughts far from either, and does not reach a 
proof of the universe. 


“Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unright- 
eous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the 
Lord, and he will have mercy upon him: and to our 
God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my 
thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your 
ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens 
are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher 
than your ways, and my thoughts than your 
thoughts.’—Isataw 55: 7-9. 


GENESIS; THE APOCALYPSE 227 


Truth and Love do the unfolding of righteousness 
in man;—his mind, his heart and soul and save 
him. The Way, Love, Life,—all are names of 
Jesus. 


“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and 
the life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by 
me.’—JOHN 14:6, 

“Strive to enter m at the strait gate: for many, I say 
unto you, will seek to enter sn, and shall not be able. 
When once the master of the house 1s rtsen up, and 
hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand with- 
out, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, 
open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, 
I know you not whence ye are.”—LuKx 13: 24-25. 


“A material world implies a mortal mind 
and man a creator.”—S. & H. 507: 21. 


But Scripture teaches that God (not man) was the 
creator of the material world. 

When God created, the earth was without form 
and void, and the Spirit of God moved. 


“And the earth was without form, and void; and 
darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the 
Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” 
—GEN. 1:2. 


Above the name Creator is magnified the 
“Word” (Jesus Christ) who leads us into all truth 
through the Comforter, the Holy Ghost, whom the 
Father hath sent. 


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“T will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise 
thy name for thy loving kindness and for thy truth: 
for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy 
name.”—PSALM 138: 2. 

“ But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom 
the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you 
all things, and bring all things to your remem- 
brance, whatsoever I have said unto you.’—JOHN 
14: 26. 


It is not Mind, but is the Holy Ghost, who 
teaches us all truth. The “ Word was God,” and 
all things were made by Him. 


“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was 
with God, and the Word was God. The same was 
in the beginning with God. All things were made 
by him; and without him was not anything made 
that was made.’—Joun 1: 1-3. 


“Genesis 1:26. ‘And God said, Let us 
make man in our image, after our likeness; 
and let them have dominion over the fish of 
the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and 
over the cattle, and over all the earth, and 
over every creeping thing that creepeth upon 
the earth.’ 

“The eternal Elohim includes the forever 
universe. The name Elohim is in the plural, 
but this plurality of Spirit does not imply 
more than one God, nor does it imply three 
persons in one.”—S. & H. 515: 11-19, 


If the mind of God and the mind of man had 


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been originally one mind, then how could it be that 
man, with a mind, was crtated? Did God create 
His own mind? The contradiction of Scripture by 
S. & H. by its assertion that the eternal “ Elohim ”’ 
does not imply three persons in one, requires 
noticing. 


“ For there are three that bear record in heaven, the 
Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these 
three are one.’—I JOHN 5:7. 

“T and my Father are one.’—Joun 10: 30. 

“ For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead 
bodily.”—Cot,. 2: 9. 


Power, light, and heat exist in electricity even when 
only one of them is manifest. 


“For the invisible things of him from the creation of 
the world are clearly seen, being understood by the 
things that are made, even his eternal power and 
Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because 
that, when they knew God, they glorified him not 
as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in 
their smaginations, and thei foolish heart was 
darkened.’—Rom, 1: 20-21. 


“The world believes in many persons ; but 
if God is personal, there is but one person, 
because there is but one God. His person- 
ality can only be reflected, not transmitted.” 


—S. & H. 517: 15-18. 


Here (above) Christian Science fails to recog- 
nise the fatherhood of God in the sonship of Jesus 


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Christ, by its assertion that the personality of God 
cannot be transmitted. 


“Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: 


ce 


ce 


When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, 
before they came together, she was found with child 
of the Holy Ghost... . But while he thought on 
these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared 
unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou Son of 
David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife; 
for that which is conceived sn her 1s of the Holy 
Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou 
shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save hss 
people from their sins.’—Marr. 1:18, 20-21. 

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners 
spake in teme past unto the fathers by the prophets, 
Hath mm these last days spoken unto us by his Son, 
whom he hath appotnted heir of all things, by whom 
also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness 
of his glory, and the express image of his person, 
and upholding all things by the word of his power, 
when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down 
on the right hand of the Majesty on high.’—HeEs. 
Pel eae 

Then came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah, 
saying, Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all 
flesh: 1s there anything too hard for me?”—JrEr. 
32°: 26-27. 


The dictionary defines “transmit” as “ send 


across or through,” to “ transfer.” 


“ He that receiveth you, receiveth me; and he that 


GENESIS; THE APOCALYPSE 231 


receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me.’—Mat. 
10: 40. 

“ Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called: 
I am he; I am the first, I also am the last... . 
Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not 
spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time 
that it was, there am I: and now the Lord God, and 
his Spirit hath sent me. Thus saith the Lord, thy 
Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord 

- thy God whsch teacheth thee to profit, that leadeth 
thee by the way that thou shouldest go.’—IsAIAH 
48:12, 16-17. 

“And there was delivered unto him the book of the 
prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the 
book, he found the place where it was written, 

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he 
hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; 
he hath sent me to heal the broken hearted, to 
preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering 
of sight to the blind, to set at lsberty them that are 
bruised.”—LuKE 4: 17-18. 


Christ is not mentioned as a reflection of God in 
Scripture, but one of his names is “ Emmanuel,” 
* God with us.” 


“ Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring 
forth a son, and they shail call his name Emman- 
uel; which being interpreted is, God with us.’— 
MATOS 23. 


“Here is the emphatic declaration that 
God creates all through Mind, not through 
matter,—that the plant grows, not because 


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of seed or soil, but because growth is the 
eternal mandate of Mind.’—S. & H. 
520 : 23-26, 


It is indeed so mentioned in S. & H., but not in 
Scripture. The Scripture reads: 


“In the beginning God created the heaven and the 
earth. ... And God said, Let the earth bring 
forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit 
tree yielding frmt after his kind, whose seed 1s in 
itself, upon the earth: and it was so... . And God 
said, Let us make man in our image, after our like- 
ness; and let them have dominion over the fish of 
the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the 
cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creep- 
ing thing that creepeth upon the earth.’—GEN. 
ERAS beetéy 

“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the 
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of 
life; and man became a living soul. . . . And out 
of the ground made the Lord God to grow every 
tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; 
the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and 
the tree of knowledge of good and evil,’—GEN. 
2274-9. 


Mind is not mentioned in the creation as described 
in Scripture, but the ground and the dust is. 


“Genesis 2:7. ‘And the Lord God [Je- 
hovah|] formed man of the dust of the 
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the 
breath of life; and man became a living soul.’ 


GENESIS; THE APOCALYPSE 233 


“ Matter is not the reflection of Spirit, yet 
God is reflected in all His creation. Is this 
addition to His creation real or unreal? Is it 
the truth, or is it a lie concerning man and 
God? 

“Tt must be a lie, for God presently curses 
the ground. Could Spirit evolve its opposite, 
matter, and give matter ability to sin and 
suffer? Is Spirit, God, injected into dust 
and eventually ejected at the demand of 
matter? Does Spirit enter dust, and lose 
therein the divine nature and omnipotence? 
Does Mind, God, enter matter to become 
there a mortal sinner, animated by the breath 
of God? In this narrative, the validity of 
matter is opposed, not the validity of Spirit 
or Spirit’s creations. Man reflects God; 
mankind represents the Adamic race, and is 
a human, not a divine creation.”—S, & H. 


524: 13-15, 22-31; 525: 1-6. 


The second Scriptural account in Genesis which 
S. & H. terms a lie is made evidently in detail as 
compared with the first account for the purpose of 
introducing man in full control of the creation 
wherein God had placed him. 


“ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after 
our likeness; and let them have dominion over the 
fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and 
over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over 
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 
So God created man in lis own image, in the image 


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of God created he him; male and female created 
he them.”—GEN. 1: 26-27. 


“ And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the 


ground, and breathed into hts nostrils the breath of 
life; and man became a living soul. And the Lord 
God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there 
he put the man whom he had formed. ... And 
the Lord God took the man, and put him into the 
garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep 1t.’—GEN. 
iJ Ow LD 


The ground was cursed after man was created, 


and then, not because it was opposed to God, but 
because of man—-for Adam’s sake it was cursed— 
and out of it God brings a blessing yearly to man 
by its cultivation, for seed time and harvest shall 
not fail. 


“And unto Adam he satd, Because thou hast heark- 


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ened unto the voice of thy wtfe, and hast eaten of 
the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou 
shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy 
sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of 
thy life: Thorns also and thistles shall st bring forth 
to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field: In 
the sweat of thy face shali thou eat bread, till thou 
return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou 
taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou 
return.’ —GEN,. 3: 17-19, 

While the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest, 
and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day 
and night shall not cease.’—GEN, 8: 22. 


God Himself entered matter; thereby through 
faith, the gift of God, we are saved. 


GENESIS; THE APOCALYPSE 235 


“Tn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was 
with God, and the Word was God... . And the 
Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and 
we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begot- 
ten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.’— 
Joun 1:1, 14. 

“ For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that 
not of yourselves; st $s the gift of God.’—Epu. 
Yh tay | 


“ Genesis 2:16, 17. ‘ And the Lord God 
[Jehovah] commanded the man, saying, Of 
every tree of the garden thou mayest freely 
eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good 
and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the 
day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt 
surely die.’ 

“Here the metaphor represents God, 
Love, as tempting man, but the Apostle 
James says: ‘God cannot be tempted with 
evil, neither tempteth He any man.’ It is true 
that a knowledge of evil would make man 
mortal. It is plain also that material percep- 
tion, gathered from the corporeal senses, 
constitutes evil and mortal knowledge. But 
is it true that God, good, made ‘ the tree of 
life’ to be the tree of death to His own cre- 
ation? Has evil the reality of good? Evil is 
unreal because it is a lie,—false in every 
statement.”—S. & H. 527: 6-20. 


The command of the Lord to Adam and Eve was 
not tempting them. It was the opposite, proving 
them and giving them the knowledge that the eat- 


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ing of the fruit from that tree would be contrary 
to His, their Creator’s command. The Scripture 
stands, as always. 

Does the physician tempt his patient when he 
informs him that a certain course of action will 
surely result in his death? Quite the contrary. It 
is a warning, 

The tree of Life was not included in the pro- 
hibition. ‘They were permitted to eat of every tree 
except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 


“ And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of 
every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 
But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou 
shalt not eat of st: for in the day that thou eatest 
thereof thou shalt surely die.’—GeEn. 2: 16-17. 


Man was not to go on living as he was created 
forever. After he had disobeyed he must be 
brought back from the sale he had made of him- 
self; he must have a redeemer; and he was to be 
born again, the second time by the Spirit of his 
Redeemer who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, 
the second man, the Lord from heaven, a far more 
glorious creation than the first creation 1f he would 
now obey the spirit. | 


“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he ts a new 
creature: old things are passed away; behold, all 
things are become new.’—II Cor. 5: 17. 

“ But as many as recewed him, to them gave he power 


GENESIS; THE APOCALYPSE 237 


to become the sons of God, even to them that be- 
lieve on his name.”—Joun 1:12. 


“ Beloved, now are we the sons of God; and it doth 
not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, 
when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we 
shall see him as he ts.’—I JouN 3:2, 


Therefore, instead of making the tree of life, or 
the “tree of the knowledge of good and evil,” “to 
be the tree of death to his own creation,” as stated 
by S. & H., God overcame evil with good and made 
man’s disobedience to be, if man would, his entry 
into a far more glorious existence, through a Re- 
-deemer, Jesus Christ. 


“Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with 
good.”—Rom. 12:21. 

“ And the Lord God said, Behold, the man ts become 
as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest 
he put forth hss hand, and take also of the tree of 
life, and eat, and live forever.’—GEN. 3: 22. 


Man was to learn obedience through the obedience 
of his Redeemer, if he would. 


“But every man ts tempted, when he is drawn away 
of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath 
concewed, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it és 
finished, bringeth forth death.’—James 1: 14-15. 

“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God 
is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.”— 
Rom. 6: 23. 


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“Genesis 2:19. ‘And out of the ground 
the Lord God [Jehovah] formed every beast 
of the field, and every fowl of the air; and 
brought them unto Adam, to see what he 
would call them: and whatsoever Adam 
called every living creature, that was the 
name thereof.’ 

“Here the lie represents God as repeating 
creation, but doing so materially, not spirit- 
ually, and asking the prospective sinner to 
help Him. Is the Supreme Being retrograd- 
ing, and is man giving up his dignity? Was 
it requisite for the formation of man that 
dust should become sentient, when all being 
is the reflection of the eternal Mind, and the 
record declares that God has already created 
man, both male and female? That Adam 
gave the name and nature of animals, is 
solely mythological and material. It cannot 
be true that man was ordered to create man 
anew in partnership with God; this supposi- 
tion was a dream, a myth.”—S. & H. 
527 : 21-30; 528: 1-8. 


In mentioning a portion of Scripture as a lie, S. & 
H. places all other Scriptures as proof of the truth 
of that portion denied. 

God asked help of no man in His creative work. 
He created, and He only, all things. 


“ All things were made by him; and without him was 
not anything made that was made.”—JOHN 1:3. 


The detail given in the second chapter of Genesis 


GENESIS; THE APOCALYPSE 239 


of the Creation is such, evidently, to bring about a 
more complete knowledge. The first chapter of 
Genesis relates that man was created male and fe- 
male. ‘The second chapter tells how God did create. 
In no place does Scripture recite that God repeated 
His first creation, nor is the recital of the Creation 
in the second chapter of Genesis a repetition of the 
account ; details are given that are not given in the 
first chapter of Genesis. 


“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the 
ground, and breathed tnto his nostrils the breath of 
life; and man became a living soul... . And the 
Lord God said, It 1s not good that man should be 
alone; I will make him an help meet for him... . 
And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon 
Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, 
and closed up the flesh instead thereof ; And the rib, 
whch the Lord God had taken from man, made he 
a woman, and brought her unto the man.’—GEN. 
Boe ley ehz2: 


Paul would not have had Scriptural authority for 
his account of the dignified estate of man, had the 
details of the Creation in Genesis, second chapter, 
been omitted. 


“But I would have you know, that the head of every 
man 1s Christ; and the head of the woman is the 
man,; and the head of Christ is God. . . . For the 
man 1s not of the woman; but the woman of the 
man; ... For as the woman is of the man, even 


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so ts the man also by the woman: but all things of 
God.’—I Cor. 11: 3, 8, 12. 


Nowhere in Scripture is it stated that Adam was 
called upon to give to animals their nature. The 
truth is plainly stated that God created them after 
their kind. 


“ And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, 
and cattle after their kind, and everything that 
creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God 
saw that it was good.’”—GeEn, 1:25. 


“ Genesis 2:21, 22. ‘And the Lord God 
[Jehovah, Yawah] caused a deep sleep to 
fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took 
one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in- 
stead thereof; and the rib, which the Lord 
God [Jehovah] had taken from man, made 
he a woman, and brought her unto the man.’ 

“Here falsity, error, credits Truth, God, 
with inducing a sleep or hypnotic state in 
Adam in order to perform a surgical oper- 
ation on him and thereby create woman. 
This is the first record of magnetism. Be- 
ginning creation with darkness instead of 
light,—materially rather than spiritually,— 
error now simulates the work of Truth, 
mocking Love and declaring what great 
things error has done. Beholding the cre- 
ations of his own dream and calling them 
real and God-given, Adam—alias error— 
gives them names. Afterwards he is sup- 
posed to become the basis of the creation of 


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woman and of his own kind, calling them 
mankind,— that is, a kind of man. 

“ But according to this narrative, surgery 
was first performed mentally and without 
instruments ; and this may be a useful hint to 
the medical faculty."—S. & H. 528: 9-30. 


How God created woman is given in Scripture 
and the account believed in by the great interpreter 
of Scripture, the apostle Paul, as we have just 
quoted from his letter to the Corinthians. We can 
trust Paul in his accounting for the creation of 
woman, for he taught by the Spirit. 

It was not necessary for God, who formed man, 
to use instruments to take from him any part of 
his person. It is not mentioned in Scripture how 
He separated that part. 


“Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, 
and hast forgotten God that formed thee.’—DeEvt. 
See Ut 


“Tn divine Science, man is sustained by 
God, the divine Principle of being. The 
earth, at God’s command, brings forth food 
for man’s use. Knowing this, Jesus once 
said, ‘Take no thought for your life, what 
ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink ’—pre- 
suming not on the prerogative of His Cre- 
ator, but recognising God, the Father and 
Mother of all, as able to feed and clothe man 
as He doth the lilies.”—S, & H. 530: 6-12. 


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In view of the theory of S. & H., that the sus- 
taining power of God toward man, is come to be 
known by divine Science, and that S$. & H. is the 
book to make known such recent discovery, it seems 
well to look to Scripture for what it relates thereof, 
three thousand years ago. 


“Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wil- 
derness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes 
waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.’—NEH. 
Oe21, 

“Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain 
thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be 
moved.”—PSALM 55: 22, 

“T laid me down and slept; I awaked: for the Lord 
sustained me.’—PsauM 3: 5, 

“And he saw that there was no man, and wondered 
that there was no intercessor; therefore his arm 
brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, 
it sustained him.’—Isatau 59: 16, 


Scripture does not give the name “ mother ” as one 
of God’s names, while it does give the name of 
Jerusalem above, as the mother of all. 


“But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the 
mother of us all.’-——Gat,. 4: 26. 


Again when the Son of God and the Son of man 
was told that His mother and His brethren wished 
to speak to Him, He said that those who did the 
will of His Father were such. 


GENESIS; THE APOCALYPSE 243 


“Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and 
thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with 
thee. But he answered and said unto him that told 
him, Who ts my mother? and who are my brethren? 

“And he stretched forth his hand toward his 
disctples, and said, Behold my mother and my 
brethren.”’—Martt, 12: 47-49, 


Would Jesus have said this had He not been the 
only begotten Son of God? 

Of Jesus, S. & H. says, “ presuming not on the 
prerogative of his creator.” Now while Jesus was 
not created, but was conceived by the Holy Ghost, 
yet He did rely wholly on the prerogative of His 
Father in all His will, according to Scripture. 


“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was 
with God, and the Word was God. The same was 
in the beginning wth God. ... And the Word 
was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we be- 
held his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of 
the Father,) full of grace and truth,’—JoHN 
Pelee 4; 

“Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of 
him that sent me, and to finish his work.’—JOHN 
4: 34. 


“T can of my own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: 
and my judgment is just: because I seek not mine 
own will, but the will of the Father which hath 
sent me.’—JOHN 5: 30, 


And He commands mankind to seek the Father’s 


244 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 


will also, consenting that sin in man also was a 
reality as well as evil. 


“And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our 
Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as m 
heaven, so in earth. Give us day by day our daily 
bread. And forgive us our sins; for we also for- 
give everyone that 1s indebted to us. And lead us 
not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.”— 
Luke ite2)35, 4. 


“ Genesis 3:4, 5. ‘And the serpent said 
unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: for 
God doth know that in the day ye eat 
thereof, then your eyes shall be opened ; and 
ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.’ 

“This myth represents error as always as- 
serting its superiority over truth, giving the 
lie to divine Science, and saying, through the 
material senses: ‘I can open your eyes. I 
can do what God has not done for you. Bow 


down to me and have another god.’ ”—S. & 
Fr Oo0 sl a- 21: 


Is it possible that the apostle Paul would have al- 
luded to a myth, in the serious terms which he uses 
in reciting a truth from Scripture? 


“For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam 
was not decesved; but the woman, being deceived 
was in the transgression.’——I Tim. 2: 13-14. 

“And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest 
to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did 


GENESIS; THE APOCALYPSE 245 


eat. And the Lord God said unto the woman, what 
is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, 
The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.’—GEN. 
ela S: 


“Ts Mind in matter? Is Mind capable of 
error as well as of truth, of evil as well as 
of good, when God is All and He is Mind 
and there is but one God, hence one Mind?” 
—S. & H. 532: 22-25. 


Contrary to Scripture, such reasoning is dis- 
solved by God’s Word, as the mist before the sun. 
God is not mind. He is almighty, above all princi- 
pality such as mind. 


“ The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were 
gathered together against the Lord, and against hss 
Christ. For of a truth against thy holy child 
Jesus, whom thou hast anosnted, both Herod, and 
Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of 
Israel, were gathered together.’—Acts 4: 26-27. 


The mind of man is a part of the man that God 
created. It is not God’s mind; God’s mind is above 
it and can control it. If man’s mind and God’s 
mind were one, God’s kingdom would not be what 
it is; for God overrules the minds of men and a 
kingdom divided against itself will not stand. 


“ And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, 
Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to 


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desolation; and every city or house diwided agaist 
itself shall not stand.’—Matvt, 12:25 


Could a mind create itself? ‘There was no mind 
before Him who is the beginning. There was the 
mind of God before man was created. 


“Thou shalt have no other gods before me.’— 
Exopus 20: 3. 

“ For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he 
may instruct him? But we have the mind of 
Christ.’—I Cor. 2: 16. 


Was God’s mind ever defiled ? 


“Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them 
that are defiled and unbelseving is nothing pure; 
but even their mind and conscience is defiled.’— 
ips UALS, 


We receive the mind of Christ only through the 
Holy Ghost, the Comforter, the Spirit of Truth, 
—a gift. 


“ All things that the Father hath, are mine: there- 
fore said I, that he shall take of msne, and shall 
shew it unto you.”—JouNn 16:15. 


“ Genesis 3:11, 12. ‘ And He said, Who 
told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou 
eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee 
thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, 
The woman whom Thou gavest to be with 
me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.’ 


GENESIS; THE APOCALYPSE 247 


“Here there is an attempt to trace all 
human errors directly or indirectly to God 
or good, as if He were the creator of evil.” 


—S. & H. 533: 5-12. 
Here is the Scripture: 


“TI form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, 
and create evil. I the Lord do all these things.’— 
IsAIAH 45:7. 


S. & H. begins its comments on Revelation at 
the tenth chapter, a portion of which it quotes. 
It calls the book his (John’s) book. Revelation 
is the Book of Jesus Christ; John was but His 
amanuensis. 


“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave 
unto him, to shew unto his servants things which 
must shorily come to pass; and he sent and signi- 


fied it by his angel unto hts servant John.’— 
Rev. 1:1. 


In the Book, therefore, we may look for that 
which Jesus Christ has revealed. That which is 
revealed is something “ which must shortly come 
to pass.”’ 

Being a revelation from Jesus Christ to man, any 
claim by S. & H. to a discovery in it is void. That 
which is revealed excludes discovery. 


“ All things were made by him; and without him was 
not anything made that was made.”—Joun 1: 3. 


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“ Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture 
is of any private interpretation.”—II PErer 1: 20. 


“ Revelation 12:1. ‘And there appeared 
a great wonder in heaven: a woman clothed 
with the sun, and the moon under her feet, 
and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.’ 
‘ Heaven represents harmony and divine 


Science interprets the Principle of heavenly 
harmony.”—S. & H. 560: 6-11. 


Heaven was not at this time representing harmony. 
It is related that there was war in heaven. 


“And there was war in heaven: Michael and his 
angels fought agaist the dragon; and the dragon 
fought and his angels.’—RrEv. 12: 7. 


“ Because of his more spiritual vision, St. 
John saw an ‘angel standing in the sun.’ 
The Revelator beheld the spiritual idea from 
the mount of the vision. Purity was the 
symbol of Life and Love. The Revelator 
saw also the spiritual ideal as a woman 
clothed in light, a bride coming down from 
heaven, wedded to the Lamb of Love. To 
John, ‘the bride’ and ‘the Lamb’ repre- 
sented the correlation of divine Principle and 
spiritual idea, God and His Christ, bringing 
harmony to earth.”—S. & H. 561: 6-15. 


John saw the angel in the sun by the revelation 
of Jesus Christ, not by his own “ superior spiritual 
vision.” Jesus Christ is the Revelator, not John. 


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There was revealed to John, the Holy City, the 
New Jerusalem, (“‘ the mother of us all’’), adorned 
as a bride. The Lamb’s wife is this holy city, the 
New Jerusalem above. 


“ And he carried me away in the spust to a great and 
high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the 
holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from 
God.”—ReEv. 21: 10. 


There is a voice in Scripture that found an echo in 
the soul of the great musician Handel, when he 
wrote his Oratorio, The Messiah. 


“ And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise 
our God, all ye his servants, and yet that fear him, 
both small and great. And I heard as it were the 
voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many 
waters, and as the votce of mighty thunderings, 
saying, Alleluia; for the Lord God omnipotent 
reigneth. Let us be glad and rejoice, and give hon- 
our to hem: for the marriage of the Lamb 1s come, 
and his wife hath made herself ready.’—REv. 
be 76 


“Revelation 12:9. ‘And the great 
dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called 
the devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the 
whole world: he was cast out into the earth, 
and his angels were cast out with him.’ 

“That false claim—that ancient belief, 
that old serpent whose name is devil (evil), 
claiming that there is intelligence in matter, 
either to benefit or to injure men—is pure 


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delusion, the red dragon; and it is cast out 
by Christ, Truth, the spiritual idea, and so 
proved to be powerless. The words ‘cast 
unto the earth’ show the dragon to be noth- 
ingness, dust to dust; and therefore, in his 
pretence of being a talker, he must be a lie 
from the beginning.”—S. & H. 567: 15-24. 


According to Scripture, Satan is a talker, and is 
a reality, according to the Saviour’s words. God 
spoke to Satan, and Satan answered. 


“ Now there was a day when the sons of God came to 
present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came 
also among them. And the Lord said unto Satan, 
Whence comest thou? And Satan answered the 
Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, 
and from walking up and down in it.’—Jox 1: 6-7. 


Jesus Christ saw Satan: 


“And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning 
fall from heaven,’—Lukge 10: 18. 


How could Satan be dust, nothingness, when he 
appears again? 


“And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having 
the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in 
his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old 
serpent, which ts the Devil, and Satan, and bound 
him a thousand years, And cast him into the bot- 
tomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon 
him, that he should deceive the nations no more, 


—— 


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till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and 
after that he must be loosed a little season.”—REV. 
20: 1-3. 


The reality of the personage, Satan, the fallen 
angel, is so momentous that his associations cannot 
be passed over lightly. We find him again in 
Scripture as he goes to his place: 


“Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, 
Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, 
prepared for the devil and hts angels... . And 
these shall go away into everlasting punishment: 
but the righteous into Isfe eternal.’—Marr. 
25:41, 46. 


We cannot conceive of having nothingness either 
cast out or of having everlasting punishment or a 
place prepared for it. Nothing cannot be punished, 
neither can it occupy a place. 


“ He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I 
well be his God, and he shall be my son. But the 
fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and 
murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and 
idolators, and all liars, shall have their part in the 

lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which 
is the second death.”—REv. 21: 7-8. 


“*And I saw a new heaven and a new 
earth: for the first heaven and the first earth 
were passed away; and there was no more 
sea.’ 

“The Revelator had not yet passed the 


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We repeat that Jesus Christ, not John, was the 
Revelator, John—-the amanuensis. The question is 
asked by 8. & H., “through what sense came this 
vision to John’? It came to John, not by a vision, 


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transitional stage in human experience called 
death, but he already saw a new heaven and 
a new earth. Through what sense came this 
vision to St. John? Not through the ma- 
terial visual organs for seeing, for optics are 
inadequate to take in so wonderful a scene. 
Were this new heaven and new earth terres- 
trial or celestial, material or spiritual? They 
could not be the former, for the human sense 
of space is unable to grasp such a view. 
The Revelator was on our plane of existence, 
while yet beholding what the eye cannot see, 
—that which is invisible to the uninspired 
thought. This testimony of Holy Writ sus- 
tains the fact in Science, that the heavens and. 
earth to one human consciousness, that con- 
sciousness which God bestows, are spiritual, 
while to another, the unillumined human 
mind, the vision is material. ‘This shows un- 
mistakably that what the human mind terms 
matter and spirit, indicates stages and states 
of consciousness.”—S. & H. 572:20-29; 
S73 I= 12! 


but by an angel, sent by Jesus Christ. 


“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave 
unto him, to shew unto his servants things which 
must shortly come to pass; and he went and sig- 
nsfied it by his angel unto hts servant John.’— 


Revi Pit 


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The Scripture is all a reality, as are the new heaven 
and the new earth. 


“And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse, 
and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and 
True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make 
war. ... And he was clothed with a vesture 
dipped sn blood: and his name is called The Word 
of God.”—Rev. 19:11, 13. 


Here, in His glorious majesty, appears the Word 
of God—the Word made flesh. 


“ And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I 
judge him not: for I come not to judge the world, 
but to save the world. He that rejecteth me, and 
receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: 
the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge 
him in the last day.’—Joun 12: 47-48. 

“And I heard a great votce out of heaven, saying, 
Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he 
will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, 
and God himself shall be with them, and be their 
God.”—Rey, 21: 3. 


Again $. & H. asks a question, ‘‘ were this new 
heaven and new earth terrestrial or celestial, ma- 
terial or spiritual?” Again Scripture answers. 
This New Jerusalem came down from heaven: God 
will dwell with men: Tears will be wiped away: 


“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the 


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first heaven and the first earth were passed away; 
and there was no more sea. 

“And I, John, saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, 
coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as 
a bride adorned for her husband. 

“And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, 
Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he 
will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, 
and God himself shall be with them, and be their 
God. 

“And God shall wipe away all tears from their 
eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither 
sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more 
pain; for the former things are passed away.’— 
Rev. 21: 1-4. 


John saw the new heaven and the new earth. He 
also heard a voice, it came to a man. Are we not 
justified in believing that the occurrence as John 
received it, was real, as that which Paul experienced 
when a light shone and he heard a voice, when on 
his way to Damascus? 


“And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying 
unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? 
And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord 
said, I am Jesus, whom thou persecutest: it is hard 
for thee to kick against the pricks.’—Acts 9: 4-5, 





“In Revelation 21:22, further describing 
this holy city, the beloved Disciple writes :— 

““And I saw no temple therein: for the 
Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the 
temple of it.’ 


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“There was no temple,—that is, no ma- 
terial structure in which to worship God, for 
He must be worshipped in spirit and in love. 
The word temple also means body. The 
Revelator was familiar with Jesus’ use of 
this word, as when Jesus spoke of His ma- 
terial body as the temple to be temporarily 
rebuilt (John 2:21). What further indi- 
cation need we of the real man’s incorporeal- 
ity than this, that John saw heaven and earth 
with ‘no temple [body] therein’? This 
kingdom of God ‘is within you,’—is within 
reach of man’s consciousness here, and the 
spiritual idea reveals it.”——-S. & H. 576: 8-23. 


No temple was needed. Jesus, when speaking to 
the Pharisees of the temple, united the temple and 
Him that dwelleth therein in this wise: 


“And whoso shall swear by the temple, swveareth by 
it, and by him that dwelleth therein. And he that 
shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of 
God, and by him that sttteth thereon.’—Matr. 
Pomel aee: 


God and the Lamb are in this manner insepar- 
able. For the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb 
are the temple of it. It was the Father who glori- 
fied the Son,—the ‘Triune God. 


“For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he 
given to the Son to have life in himself ; And hath 
given him authority to execute judgment also, be- 
cause he is the Son of man. Marvel not at this: 


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for the hour ts comsng, in the which all that are in 
the graves shall hear his votce, and shall come 
forth; they that have done good, unto the resur- 
rection of life: and they that have done evil, unto 
the resurrection of damnation. I can of mine own 
self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judg- 
ment 1s just; because I seek not mine own will, but 
the will of the Father which hath sent me.’—JouN 
5: 26-30. 


Many in the world today are looking for a man— 
a ruler—who will execute judgment in the earth, 
yet, while the Word of the Son of God, and the Son 
of man is ringing in the fifth and sixth chapters of 
John and out from the entire Scripture that He it is 
who is finally coming to execute judgment, and that 
fle now rules in heaven and in earth, assemblies of 
people gather in His Name and are divided as to 
whether He speaks the truth or not. 

Can anyone read those chapters of John with 
thought and prayer, as a Christian, without 
acknowledging that Jesus is both Christ and God, 
“the Word made flesh ”’? 


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Towering o'er the wrecks of time. 

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